Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gorbachev is clearly sensitive to opinion at home. When Soviet television broadcast his interview with NBC's Tom Brokaw last year, a question on whether Gorbachev discussed "Soviet affairs at the highest level" with his wife was deleted. The General Secretary's answer ("We discuss everything") was cut as well. In Washington last year she spontaneously crossed the street to talk to Western journalists, underlining a Gorbachevian openness; her KGB bodyguards promptly ordered the only Soviet journalist in the press group to leave...
...notion of inviting senior citizens to a high school-style prom originated with three students, Jennifer Dell, Nancy Becker and Lori Freeman. About 90 people between 50 and 91 years old, most of whom had missed their own proms because they were in the armed forces, cut a rug to the music of Michael Jackson as well as Benny Goodman. Seventy-five West Bloomfield students volunteered as dates for seniors who had none. Said Dell: "One little man I thought would never stop dancing...
...Such close monitoring can cut both ways for a journalist in the field. CNN's Latin-American correspondent Lucia Newman was taunted by a mob opposed to Panamanian Strongman Manuel Antonio Noriega after she was seen smiling during a televised interview with the general. But when ousted President Eric Arturo Delvalle granted an interview to a U.S. network, he chose CNN because of its high profile in Panama. Ultimately, Newman's reporting offended Noriega, and she was expelled from the country...
...have any hope of turning things around, he needed an additional $2 million or more. That would pay for TV advertising and cover losses for up to two months until the ads and word of mouth might bring in a profitably large audience. "I made an economic decision to cut my losses," said Kurz in his Hamburg office. "Broadway is Russian roulette, and I'm not a gambler...
Advocates say it would cut down on street crime, a greater menace than the drugs themselves. But opponents charge that legalization would cause a vast increase in addiction, and they appear to have the better case. -- Congress wants the military to intercept drugs, despite the Pentagon' s objections. -- Meanwhile, the feds seize flotillas of yachts for specks of narcotics. See NATION...