Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sing and dance in a full-scale musical. She repeated the role several times on television, and for millions the part will always be hers. But for those seeing the play for the first time, Sandy Duncan will probably seem equally inevitable as the boy who refuses to grow up. Underneath her male costume, Martin was clearly a woman; the difference is not so apparent with Duncan, who is, in fact, closer to James M. Barrie's original conception. Her Peter is androgynous, part boy, part tomboy. As she plays the character, sexual distinctions are irrelevant, an unwanted intrusion...
...mind his business peaceably (his only message to would-be followers is a perfectly sensible "You'll have to work things out for yourselves"), but ends up being crucified anyway. To make matters worse, one of his fellow sufferers on Golgotha is one of those awful people who grow only more cheerful as the situation becomes grimmer. He insists on leading the condemned in choruses of a Broadway-style tune, The Bright Side of Life, as they hang from their crosses...
Connally is a restless man, quick to size up a situation and quick to grow bored with it. He is compulsive and meticulous, prone to polish his shiny shoes with a tissue or to straighten pictures on the wall. Despite an easy and cordial manner, he has a strong sense of privacy, always keeping a certain distance. "I pick my friends carefully," he says, "watching them for a long time before I commit. I'm aloof, I know that. I have very few close friends." Connally's temper is sharp, his sense of loyalty demanding. He has barely spoken...
...with its own adherents. From the junta down, each body has included not only leftists but also representatives of such moderate groups as Ramirez's Broad Opposition Front and the probusiness Superior Council for Private Enterprise. The unlikely coalition of moderates and leftists could well split if businessmen grow disenchanted with the socialist policies advocated by the Sandinistas. Surprisingly, the first serious threat came from the extreme left. Dissatisfied with the government's plans for building a mixed economy melding public and private enterprise, 60 Latin-American Trotskyites, calling themselves the Simón Bolívar Brigade...
...Rosenthal wants to see capital grow throughout the economy by radically changing the source of much that is wrong in the U.S.: its tax system. In his view, the system fosters too many tax shelters, expense-account freeloaders and assorted cheaters. It penalizes achievement because it taxes salaries at rates up to 50% and capital (in the form of dividends and interest...