Word: felted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Being a white student can have its disadvantages, Worthman says. "I am not as personally informed as other students, but I would not major in it if I felt at all uncomfortable with the subject matter...
...result is an Administration whose clarion call is "Enrich thyself." For Reagan, money is the measure of achievement, and he has left no doubt that he prefers the company of the wealthy. McFarlane, shortly after his suicide attempt in February, told the New York Times of the frustrations he felt as National Security Adviser: "Shultz and Cap Weinberger and Don Regan and the Vice President had built up businesses and made great successes of themselves. I haven't done that. I had a career in the bureaucracy. I didn't really quite qualify. It didn't do any good...
...Emanuel Savas, an assistant secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, preached what he practiced: he used his agency staff to type and proofread a commercial book of his titled, aptly enough, Privatizing the Public Sector. Some officials, having made financial sacrifices to go into Government, evidently felt entitled to recoup as much as possible. C. McClain Haddow, former chief of staff at the Department of Health and Human Services, was indicted last month for fraudulently obtaining $33,540 from the "T. Bear Foundation," which he helped create to encourage children to wash their hands...
...colorizing" black-and-white movies. Joined by fellow Directors Milos & Forman and Sydney Pollack, Allen protested the computerized coloring of such classics as It's a Wonderful Life and Casablanca, calling the result "cheesy, artificial symbols of one society's greed." Allen was equally plainspoken about how he felt on becoming a father for the first time. The auteur, 51, said that his longtime girlfriend Mia Farrow, 42, had become pregnant "by accident" and that he has no plans to marry or move in with the actress, who already has eight children of her own. "I think...
...Kesselman proved so elusive that at times Inspector John Stafford felt as if the character he was tracking were more fictional than real. Stafford, who works for the U.S. Marshals Service, spent 3 1/2 years looking for Kesselman in connection with British charges of cocaine trafficking and money laundering. "He was a charmer," says Stafford. "He was mobile, smart, bounced around to all these different spots, and you couldn't get a handle...