Word: hand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jewish critics that has sometimes curdled into outright anti-Semitism. Michael Graff, secretary-general of the People's Party, was forced to resign last month after he told the French magazine L'Express that Waldheim had "no problem" unless he could be proved to have "strangled six Jews single-handedly." On the other hand, in Vienna last week, three neo-Nazis interrupted a nationally televised ceremony honoring Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal with repeated shouts of "Murderer!" When the program's host asked the audience to show its disapproval by giving Wiesenthal a standing ovation, the listeners responded with fervent applause...
...desire to master a situation, then go beyond it. On the most basic level, there is his insistence on dominating everything related to his music. With a nose for business as keen as his faculty for churning out hits, Lloyd Webber keeps the reins of power tightly in his hand. No matter where he is, he is often on the phone to the staff at his London-based production company, the Really Useful Group, or to one of the small number of theater professionals who make up his de facto stock company, among them Producer Cameron Mackintosh, Lyricist Black...
...needs some exorcise. There are homages aplenty to the old cartoons -- lascivious bulging eyes, deft wordplay (in pig Latin) and that bizarre sound effect that suggests a gargoyle gargling -- and laughs aseveral. The pace lags in spots, but any lulls allow the viewer to savor the glory of full, hand-drawn animation. And Daffy is as raffish as ever, talking like Freud or stalking like Groucho. At the end, three ghostly Shmoos chase Daffy down the street as his exorcised client drawls a warm, "Y'all come back now, y'hear?" Anyone who grew up on Warners cartoons is likely...
...things put in the balance--a sense of guilt for leaving a morass of schoolwork unfinished, on the one hand; a single-minded psychotic unwillingness to remain one more second in Cambridge on the other--I welcomed the opportunity to rise before dawn on Friday, the 8th of January, to begin the long journey to San Francisco. Because one is flying west against the predominant winds and counter to the rotation of the earth, departure must be delayed, the inflight food is half-charred-half-frozen, and you gain three hours on landing. Probably an astrophsyicist could figure this...
...young reporter confessed to me a certain unease with the ethics of the situation. Was there not a conflict of interest here? he wondered, free drink in hand...