Word: hand
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...more mature product. The tawdry antics of the TV evangelists last year helped to encourage the faithful to discriminate between superficial and serious religion. Movies such as Broadcast News urge the triumph of substance over shadow, as does the popular television series L.A. Law, which has recently turned its hand to social-action stories and away from money, its founding muse. Tom Wolfe, who has forged a career out of the superficialities of the times, now produces a novel about vanity, sensing that people may be ready to condemn the vacant, self-celebrating life. The plague of AIDS...
...Correspondent Janice Simpson called Joe Clark, the controversial New Jersey high school principal, and asked him to sound off for this week's cover story on school discipline, Clark invited her to accompany him on his rounds. Off they went at breakneck speed, he with his infamous bullhorn in hand, she with her notebook. Clark strode swiftly along the corridors, swooping down to pick up stray scraps of paper and barking orders at his staff. When Clark finally sat down to talk, he remained hyperactive, bouncing out of his seat to make heartfelt points. After a dozen interviews with other...
Working on their third center and third right guard, the Broncos have a casualty list that ranges from the brutal to the baroque. During the Cleveland game, surgical pins started oozing out of Strong Safety Dennis Smith's broken hand; he kept playing. On top of that, consider the fact that three defensive stalwarts -- Cornerback Louis Wright, Linebacker Tom Jackson and Safety Steve Foley -- retired after last year. Nobody can say how the defense was able to repeat, but everyone knows venerable Assistant Coach Joe Collier had much to do with...
...intense maneuvering in Washington and Managua could mean just one thing: another congressional vote on contra aid was at hand. But this vote, scheduled for next week, promises to be different. Seven years after first requesting money for the rebels and making the contras a cornerstone of his foreign policy, Reagan may be facing his final showdown over the fate of those he once likened to the Founding Fathers. Administration officials maintain that there are only enough military supplies in the pipeline to sustain the rebels through February. If the vote is no, Reagan will not be able to provide...
...Ortega struck in San Jose two weeks ago while meeting with the peace plan signatories quickly evaporated when he returned home. During a visit last week to Ciudad Dario, a town north of Managua, he warned that if contra aid was approved, the Nicaraguan government would gain a "free hand to take necessary measures to defend the sovereignty, self-determination and independence of our country." The implication was that even a single additional cent of aid would provoke the Sandinistas to withdraw some, if not all, of their concessions. The hard truth is that Nicaragua's economy cannot withstand much...