Word: cutthroats
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Sweeney Todd (The Entertainment Channel). Terry Hughes directed Stephen Sondheim's operatic musical for cable with seamless theater and TV technique. George Hearn was magnificent as Sweeney, the misanthropic cutthroat; Angela Lansbury was delectably deranged as his helpmeet...
...rest in the Brinkerhoff Lodge on the edge of Jackson Lake in Wyoming. The Grand Tetons rose into the clear sky across the water, some of our newest and most unweathered mountains, the sharp peaks a breathtaking spectacle. Earlier in the day, I had been fly-fishing for cutthroat trout in the nearby Snake River. Late in the afternoon, Amy and I had picked wild huckleberries in a grove of quaking aspen near the cabin, and we all enjoyed a delicious berry pie for supper. Although it was not cold, Rosalynn and I built a small fire just to watch...
...close my thoughts were not on the cutthroat trout, the delicious food or the beauties of nature. It was late at night, and I was very tired. I was studying a thick volume, written especially for me, about two men: Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat. In a few days, on Sept. 5, 1978, I would welcome them to Camp David. Ours would be a new approach, perhaps unprecedented in history. Three leaders of nations would be isolated from the outside world; an intensely personal effort would be required of us. I had to understand these...
...American steel companies charge that the Europeans are using cutthroat tactics, including predatory pricing and domestic subsidies, to sell their products in the U.S. at less than it costs to manufacture them. They maintain that the Europeans can sell their products cheaply because many producers are either outright government owned or else heavily subsidized...
...their career interests during years that were supposed to be reserved for "liberal arts" education. Harvard's ostensible answer to that squeeze produces only faceless programs like the Core Curriculum. On a personal travel, the University has done nothing to counteract student's increasing introspection, which manifests itself in cutthroat pre-professionalism and general political apathy of the past several years. By example, Harvard has encouraged selfishness...