Word: dishonor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good eye and ear for detail. People often have a hard time dealing with facts that distort their presumptions, but that is what they ask of their messengers: tell everything. The difficulty in war reporting is that no one, on any side, wants everything told. Everything includes cowardice, dishonor, the breaking of codes. He who tells everything represents a greater menace than the opponent's weaponry, which is why every sensible commander tries to keep correspondents away from the action. The best of the lot are welcome nowhere...
Founded by Rice, who has enlisted the assistance of fellow professors to judge the entries (some 700 so far), the contest was named in dishonor of poor Edward G.E.L. Bulwer-Lytton. A popular and workmanlike 19th century British novelist, Bulwer-Lytton wrote a book, Paul Clifford, that unfortunately began, "It was a dark and stormy night. . ." Among the exquisitely bad sentences sent to the California (zip code: 95192) judges: "Screaming like a banshee, bargaining like a waterfront drug dealer, bleeding like a side of beef in an abattoir, the Chinese sailor croaked out one word: 'Firelight' (a code...
...leniency now? One reason is that Mao is still widely revered in China, and the execution of his widow would be seen as a dishonor to his memory. It might also make her something of a martyr and inflame those ultraleftists now in hiding. By sparing her, the new government can reinforce its image of moderation and self-confidence. Says a Chinese official: "A political consideration is, of course, foremost: to preserve the current unity and stability in our country. Besides, she no longer has the ability to stir up trouble...
...much of a hurry for character, smart acting, quirky scripts. One recent show, written by Lee Zlotoff and directed by Jeff Bleckner, borrowed, with shrewd and subtle acknowledgment, not only a plot device but a character from Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest and did its source no dishonor. That is playing in the big leagues. But with the blithe charms of Zimbalist and Brosnan, Remington Steele is shaping up as championship stuff. -By Jay Cocks
When the ghosts take a whirling tour through the house, they include a pit stop in the children's suite to paint on the wall a picture of a pig and the slogan "Dishonor Thy Father." Papa Montelli of course refuses to believe the innocent cries that "brushes" did it and he start to belt the kids. Mom breaks in so he starts to break her. That fracas finally ends, ominously enough, with Sonny holding a loaded rifle to his father's head...