Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting $20,000 a year as a lobbyist fot the tobacco industry. Finnegan believes in capital punishment (Why is capital punishment an issue in a municipal election? Because this is Boston), mandatory sentencing and rent control. Sometimes he even sounds like Gov. Edward J. King, promising to cut all government-funded abortions and yelling about improving public safety. But can the voters take this man, who wants to recruit police youth liaison officers "out of the Starsky and Hutch mold," seriously...
...version of Kean. Most of the loss has been in those offhand moments that give the play texture, but a couple of key scenes have also been dropped, making the first hour unnecessarily difficult. Joan Sullivan, producer of "Masterpiece Theater," argues that her option was to show either a cut Kean or no Kean at all. It was a choice that PBS should not have forced her or her viewers to make...
About 50 department stores in the U.S. and Canada have installed the device to reduce shoplifting and employee theft. One undisclosed East Coast chain is said to have cut the number of thefts by 37%, for a saving of $600,000, during a nine-month trial. The device also seems to be catching on with other businesses...
Ludwig has built barracks for ordinary laborers as well as fancier bungalows for the technical and managerial staff. But he cut back substantially on plans for additional housing, especially for the lowest-paid workers. Result: squalid slum towns, inhabited partly by whores and thieves, have sprung up near the sites, and many workers live in unsanitary and unsavory conditions. At first, Ludwig relied entirely on Brazilian contractors to supply laborers, and some of the bosses exploited their men and skimmed off their wages. Now Ludwig has set up safeguards to ensure that the workers receive their full pay, which averages...
...have seen how Laurencin's nebulous watercolors had been evolved by Sudeikina and Kochno ... Nemtchinova appeared before Diaghilev's eyes in a long blue velvet frock-coat, like that of a head porter in a hotel. 'Give me the scissors, Grigoriev!' Diaghilev exclaimed. He cut away the collar, to make a wide V-neck. He cut away the velvet, till it barely covered the buttocks. Nemtchinova had never shown so much leg before (what ballerina had?) and she protested. 'I feel naked!' 'Then go and buy yourself some white gloves!' said Diaghilev...