Word: flawlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reportedly addresses the question, "Do people make revolutions or do revolutions make people?" and the plot concerns a cowardly Boston barman who is forced to become a revolutionary because he needs the money and because Sam Adams threatens to put a bullet through his head. The script isn't flawless, but the production is good and offers a new variation on what is already a hackneyed subject. At the Tufts Arena Theater, Medford, Thursday through Saturday...
...pugnacious American League catcher of the 1950s and early 1960s; of an apparent heart attack; in Rochester, while on the road with the minor-league Richmond Braves, which he had managed since 1973. For more than a decade, Courtney played with six clubs, compiling a record of near-flawless fielding and clutch hitting. A relentless belligerence earned him his nickname and triggered some of baseball's most violent brouhahas, notably a game-stopping 1953 free-for-all at Busch Stadium that began when Courtney, then playing for the old St. Louis Browns, spiked Yankee Shortstop Phil Rizzuto while trying...
...causes of the crisis are complex. Malpractice suits, once rare, have become increasingly common. That is because patients, better informed than ever before and expecting flawless care for what many consider exorbitant medical bills, have taken to the courts to protest-and make doctors pay for -botched results. In New York, for example, the number of malpractice suits doubled between 1970 and 1974. Round the nation, awards by judges and juries have also increased. Settlements of $1 million or more are no longer unusual...
...Cole couldn't resist the temptation to tie up the loose ends, but it indicates that there is no ample cure for Jackson and veterans with similar problems. And if they deserve our attention, to does Medal of Honor Rag, not because it is a flawless play, but because it presents the veteran's predicament with an eloquent directness and honesty...
...Flawless Operation. The exercise, called "Operation Eagle Pull," went off flawlessly. All together 276 people, including Americans, Cambodians and nationals of other countries, were lifted out aboard CH-53 helicopters from carriers Okinawa and Hancock. The choppers were protected by a 20-plane force of U.S. fighters and the staging area was secured by more than 300 Marines in combat gear. Several Khmer Rouge rockets landed near by during the evacuation...