Word: eyeful
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...assigned between 1942 and 1944. The troops carried out brutal reprisals against Yugoslav resistance fighters and deported Greek Jews to Nazi death camps. The book further asserts that Waldheim dropped all mention of his Balkans service from the 278-page English-language edition of his 1985 memoir, In the Eye of the Storm, only to meet space requirements...
...room, when the Soviet leader visited Washington and talked with a group of U.S. business executives. But Milken, still pursuing a deal, disclosed two of his proposals last week. In one scheme, Drexel Burnham would help finance U.S.-Soviet medical ventures that could reap profits from Soviet advances in eye surgery and cancer treatment. Pitching another idea, Milken proposes that the Soviets take advantage of their plentiful commodities by issuing bonds backed by stockpiles of gold or crude...
Gary Hart thus joins a prickly cast of characters, among them Senator Joe McCarthy, Spiro Agnew and Ollie North, who take on the media, and by doing so prolong their stay in the public eye. The press (which also competes for the public's favor) has to prove that it is being fair to its critics, and has done so lately by giving Gary Hart acres of publicity he couldn't buy. USA Today reports that in the four days after Hart resumed his candidacy, network evening television gave him 39.31 minutes of coverage, while allotting George Bush...
...sweet seasonal gift, take all of Moonstruck, the most beguiling romantic comedy this side of Broadcast News. Strains of Dean Martin's That's Amore -- "When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie" -- fill the Brooklyn night. A full moon illuminates Loretta Castorini (Cher) and all her family. Everybody falls in love. Her father (Vincent Gardenia), who claims he can't fall asleep because "it's too much like death," slinks out for a bit of tart on the side. Loretta's mother (Olympia Dukakis) dines furtively with a professor (John Mahoney) who keeps striking out with...
...beyond the scope of surveillance technologies. Satellites can count missiles and silos and bombers, but they cannot monitor the disassembly of nuclear warheads. To be assured that this is done, both sides were forced to rely on on-site inspections and the most sophisticated technology of all: the human eye...