Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought criminal." But there is a soft underbelly to the Ralph Rotten story, a sense that he delights in his pastime of epaler le bourgeoisie. "Watch this," he'll say, winking to the older customers perched on their stools by the counter, and then he'll direct his stentorian bellow towards he rear booths: "Hey Lucy, put your feet on the floor!" "Lucy" is his collective name for all women; when asked about it he le laurels, surprised. "I don't know--'Lucy,' it sounds cuckoo. I use it to embarrass them a little bit, I guess, so they...
...Nobel Peace Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu said, during his recent visit to Harvard, all American companies in South Africa are to some degree legitimizing apartheid. This legitimization is sometimes appallingly direct. American firms supply the computers that monitor the movement of Blacks and "coloreds" or the automobiles and petroleum that the military and police forces use to suppress the majority. But more important, the legitimization is indirect, because American corporations in South Africa cannot help but lend moral and economic support as well as credibility to the apartheid regimes simply through their physical presence...
...Israelis have made it clear that they will not return to areas they have abandoned to prevent bloodletting among the Lebanese. But they insist that they will react if they perceive a direct threat to northern Israel. "Israel will have to respond to attacks," said Uri Savir, Peres' spokesman. The Prime Minister admitted that "nobody on earth can promise that we won't go back in and destroy." Peres, however, was unequivocal in expressing his hope that Israel would be leaving Lebanon for good. "We do not want to play the slightest role in Lebanese politics," he told reporters...
...potboiler: the role of Hughes Tool Co. in building the Glomar Explorer, the secret submarine-recovery vessel; Hughes' plans to run Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt for President; Robert Maheu's part in a half-baked CIA plot to poison Fidel Castro. But the book's chief merit is its direct access to the mind of a callous and frightened man. His fears about antitrust suits, Las Vegas competition and staff loyalty pale before his phobias. Dreading germs, he dictated a "Procedures Manual" for handling anything he was to touch: "Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each...
...many middle-income families, and currently one out of every two freshmen receives some federal aid. Reagan would like to cut the program by nearly a fourth, claiming that it helps too many affluent families send their children to expensive private colleges. The President would cut off grants, direct loans, and subsidized jobs for students from families whose adjusted gross income exceeds $32,500. The budget would reduce loans by nearly $4 billion over the next three years and would place a $4,000 annual ceiling on aid to all students...