Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Privately, many lower- and middle-level U.S. diplomats were outraged by what they considered gross abuses of the democratic process by Marcos supporters. But on Monday, Deputy State Department Spokesman Charles Redman tried to put a conciliatory gloss on the tumultuous balloting process. Whoever was eventually declared the winner, he said, the U.S. hoped that "the two sides can get together to avoid violence." President Reagan struck almost the same note that day in a White House meeting with a group of regional U.S. newspaper editors. While noting that he was "concerned" about reports of election fraud, Reagan declared that...
...verge of cancellation in 1982, when a small distribution company named King World decided to create a night-time syndicated version. The show (now seen twice each weekday in most cities, in both network and syndicated editions) soon became a major hit, and this season generated $70 million in gross revenues. "If Wheel continues to hang in there," says King World Chairman Roger King, "it will do better business than Star Wars...
...anticipate a profit. Beyond just avoiding the labor strife of football and baseball, the N.B.A. seemed to draw inspiration from both quarrels. Whereas football players struck over a percentage of receipts that never materialized, basketball players are now working for a fixed 53% of the league's gross revenues. Attendance is up 6% over last year's record 10.5 million, and as business has increased, so has the athletes' take. The maximum payroll has compelled sounder salary judgment, and the talk of folding or merging a half a dozen teams has been stilled...
...Office for the Arts considered Kool-Aid on ice to be art, why didn't they cover the Radcliffe Yard, where the Office for the Arts is located, with the stuff. Instead, Quad resident are subjected to a gross example of modern "art." Of course, those of us up here should be used to such things. You know what I would have considered art? Donating the Kool-Aid grant to the Quad renovation fund--most students would prefer rooms comparable to those on the river over a ludicrous display of biodegradable graffitti. Christopher...
...course, The Crimson is not alone in its gross over-emphasis of the South Africa issue at the expense of other human rights causes. This is true of many campus organizations, and many more outside Harvard. It is time for all such organizations to ask a simple question: Is South Africa the only brutal and repressive regime on earth today? Or perhaps we should address an even more general question to liberal newspapers such as yours: Are only countries allied with the United States guilty of human rights abuses? If one's sole source of information was The Crimson...