Word: fiascos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play, Evrard sees her production turn into a fiasco. When Marat is stabbed, the passions of the inmates erupt. They assault one another, pummel away at the nuns, rush at the bars which separate them from the audience and clamor for freedom. This is how the mob acts when it rises up in revolution. We are all maniacs. Weiss seems to say, and society is our asylum...
Although he doesn't feel cheated by the missed game--"It doesn't matter to me," he claims--Santiago would like to play another contest, especially to make up for the Penn fiasco...
...Ferraro/Zaccaro finance fiasco fades into the backround, it is clear that there is no illegal sleeze here. In fact, throughout the entire ordeal, illegal sleaziness was rarely, if ever, mentioned. But there is no denying that visions of such accusations were at least thought about. Legal sleaze, on the other hand, was suspected in some of Mr. Zaccaro's business affairs, in particular when he borrowed money from an estate as its executor. However, any possibility of guilt was neatly cleared away when a court order forced him to repay the money, and when he was removed as executor...
...after a disastrous start that was symbolized by a Mondale visit to a factory in Green Bay, Wis., two weeks ago: he had to wait for what seemed an eternity before any workers showed up to shake hands. At a meeting with top aides in Tupelo, Miss., following the fiasco, Mondale demanded that they stop arranging "cutesie" photo opportunities and schedule only "substantive forums" at which he could talk issues to live audiences. He also ordered longtime Aide Mike Berman to take tighter control of advance work. The result: crowds turned out last week and microphones worked, as at times...
...Governors seeking reelection, the one in biggest trouble does not even find out who his challenger will be until this week, when Washington State holds its primary. Republican Governor John Spellman, seeking a second term, is a victim of the Washington Public Power Supply System fiasco, popularly called Whoops, which led to the largest default in municipal bond market history. Though many of the misjudgments that caused the default occurred years before Spellman took office, Democrats blame him for failing to exercise sufficient leadership when the regional power authority's problems came to a crisis...