Word: dismissiveness
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...Evening News, calls the article "a kind of diatribe"; Stan Swinton, vice president of the Associated Press, thinks it a "cheap shot" for the professor to hide behind a fake byline (he turns out to be Mansour Farhang, who teaches government at California State in Sacramento). Harder to dismiss is the judgment of Professor James A. Bill of the University of Texas, author of The Politics of Iran: he writes in Foreign Affairs that Iran coverage over the years has been "consistently sparse, superficial and distorted," particularly in "misrepresenting the nature and depth of the opposition to the Shah...
With three records to his name, each a masterpiece, only the most prejudiced or uninformed listener will dismiss Costello as "just another new-waver" or "a boring punk." He's new wave only chronologically, and Armed Forces makes use of a diversity of styles most performers today are too incompetent or unimaginative to handle. If he can hold his paranoia in check, and prevent it from freezing all humanity out of his music, Elvis Costello may well go on to dominate the next decade the way his namesake dominated the '50s. At least until 1984, that...
...about five gals chasing him down the hallway, black and white, and he says "They'll tear me to pieces." He came in and we talked for about two hours. He's very intelligent, and not at all flamboyant...I had it worked out that they were going to dismiss [the draft evasion charges] if he would go around and talk to youth clubs...and also do some work for Nixon...Mitchell turned it down...Two years after that I got back at poor John when I was representing Martha for a divorce...
Harvard's motion to dismiss the case was denied, and the suit is now in the "discovery" stage, in which evidence is collected...
Other cosmetics makers dismiss the Gene Tierney look as, literally, old hat, but they agree enthusiastically with Bergerac on the more general theme that romance and mystery are back in, supplementing if not replacing the natural look. Having established their independence, women can shift from daytime pants to dressy fashions at night, and choose makeup and fragrances to match. "As we move from the '70s into the '80s, there is a general shift from feminist to feminine," says Frederick Scott, vice president of Elizabeth Arden. Marilyn Miglin, owner of a cosmetics salon on Chicago's Gold Coast, agrees: "The trend...