Word: dealing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There were no news conferences, no gleaming press centers, no ever helpful government spokesmen when James O. Jackson began reporting from Moscow for United Press International in 1969. "We spent a great deal of time covering dissidents," recalls Jackson, TIME's Moscow bureau chief since 1985, "partly because no one else would talk to us." In that grim, pre-glasnost era, scraps of information could be hard to obtain...
Paul Fussell's collection of crusty essays covers a good deal of time and space, from Hiroshima, 1945, to the Indianapolis 500, 1982. Pieces about the fate of chivalry (linked to the decline of horse culture) and nudism in Yugoslavia (when the sun goes down, the naked dress up) range knowingly over such touchy subjects as taste and class. At his most potent, Fussell takes on two hazardous areas: meeting an enemy in battle and engaging the English language in single combat. He has had victories on both fronts, as an infantry officer in World...
Kennedy brings a great deal of success with him to the Crimson. As an undergraduate at Notre Dame, the four-year letterwinner was the Midwest Conference diving champion...
What does still work is Albee's sense of throwaway absurdity. A good deal of this absurdity appears in the dialogue's intentional inanities, cliches and fragmentary conversations. Some comes from the situation: when Mrs. Barker visits Mommy and Daddy, she removes her dress, as if it were a coat or a hat, and spends the rest of the play in her slip...
...account) of Costa Mesa's North America Savings and Loan Association and the American Diversified Savings Bank. The payout, which temporarily slashes the federal insurance fund's cash balance by 40%, to $1.9 billion, is likely to heighten the debate over the adequacy of the FSLIC's resources to deal with the troubled thrift industry...