Word: cutthroats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more challenging individual performances are also skillfully handled. Andy Sellon, as Littlechap, has the nearimpossible job of generating empathy for this cutthroat protagonist. Littlechap spends the entire play asking for love and approval he doesn't deserve. The audience is supposed to feel sorry for him at the end, when he realizes that he can only love himself. But when he bursts into "What Kind of Fool Am I?" it's a wonder they don't stand up and tell...
...cutthroat business. The total number of dailies in the U.S., currently 1,762, is virtually the same as three decades ago. With many newspapers already devoting from one-quarter to one-half of their news space to syndicated features, more and more syndicates are fighting harder and harder over the same territory. It is a giant zero-sum game. "If somebody wins, somebody loses," explains Dennis R. Allen, president of the (Des Moines) Register and Tribune Syndicate. "If a newspaper adds eight new comics, it cancels eight others. It's highly, highly competitive...
...cutthroat world of Communist politics, there are no second chances-with one exception. Last week Peking's official Hsinhua News Agency announced that the Central Committee of the Communist Party had voted to restore Teng Hsiao-p'ing, 73, to his former posts as Vice Premier, Vice Chairman of the party and Chief of Staff of the Army. At the same time, said the communique, the "Gang of Four" headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow, Chiang Ch'ing, had "once and for all" been expelled from the party and dismissed "from all posts inside...
...confidence that enabled him to conquer Manhattan's World Trade Center. Would-be birdmen can launch their hang gliders from Yosemite's Glacier Point for a 3,500-ft. descent to the park floor. Fishermen can cast their flies -and hopes-after the three-pound rainbow and cutthroat trout that make their homes in the mountain lakes and countless streams that crisscross Montana's million-acre Glacier National Park. River runners can launch themselves and their specially designed rubber boats down the foaming Colorado for a 277-mile run or trek into Texas' Big Bend National...
...Vance too nice for the job? Some think so. "He really may be too much of a gentleman," insists a Middle East expert in Washington. "He may not be able to survive the cutthroat atmosphere." But gentlemen can be tough, as well as patient; Vance may yet demonstrate that he has both these qualities, along with his undoubted intelligence...