Word: dees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Deer Hunter of the horror genre. The Shape, Michael Meyers, has become a mythic Bogeyman, and he's practically indestructible. He's also a one-man charnel-house--there wasn't a drop of blood in the original, but the sequel ladles on the gore like Chef Boy-ar-dee. Most of the movie takes place in a hospital where Jamie Lee's been hauled after her first bout with the Shape. The targets are mostly nurses. I've always hated nurses. They flash you a frigid smile and when you're not looking they stick a needle in your...
Granted, then, that Buchwald exceeds the minimum requirements of his job. He fills the space, as he has since arriving in Washington in 1962, and he can still provoke a har-dee-har-har from time to time. But given an opportunity to examine his work over an extended period, his ideas have a disturbing sameness. It's not just the reused one-liners, but more his failure to dig behind the cliches. His only unwaving concerns are those of Washington's upper-middle class when they examine personal relationships...
...quoth she. And why not? Diana, 20, and Prince Charles, 32, had just returned from their two-week Mediterranean honeymoon aboard the royal yacht Britannia. Tanned and rosy, the newlyweds-he showing more leg than she in his Gordon Highlanders kilt-ventured down to a bridge by the River Dee on Queen Elizabeth II's Scottish estate. There they tarried for a session with about 50 photographers and reporters. Asked whether she made breakfasts fit for a King, Diana replied: "I don't eat breakfast." When presented with a bouquet of white heather, roses and carnations, she smiled...
President Ferdinand E. Marcos has ruled the Philippines since 1965, including eight years of martial law that ended only in January. Standing essentially unopposed for re-election in June, he won handily with 88% of the vote. But Marcos may face his greatest threat because of Dewey Dee, a textile magnate who fled the country eight months ago and left behind more than $80 million in debts. The incident threw Philippine financial institutions into turmoil and exposed as seldom before the cronyism and corruption that has characterized the Marcos government's relationship with business...
...government's small but honest and able corps of economic technocrats went over the books in the wake of Dee's flight, they uncovered one financial horror story after another. The Construction and Development Corp. of the Philippines, which is run by longtime Marcos Pal Rodolfo Cuenca, has borrowed or obtained government loans and guarantees of about $1 billion, a Chrysler-size package put through without any debate or publicity. Cuenca was just a small businessman before Marcos came to power. Several other companies are also in hock to the government for an additional $1.75 billion...