Word: itches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most passionate case against the Administration's developing policy was made by Robert E. White, former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, who was fired by Reagan a month ago. White accused the U.S. military of an "inexplicable" itch to get in on a war that the leftists already are losing. The real threat to the junta, said White, comes from extreme rightists who are opposed to land reform, and specifically from death squads that the junta has been unable to control (see following story). White argued that the junta had crushed the guerrillas' "final offensive" in January "without...
Steven Spielberg, child and master of the movie machine, is another film maker who shows an itch to play Silly Putty with finished work. His first TV feature, Duel, was released in a longer version for theaters in Europe. Last year when ABC aired Jaws, Spielberg added a few scenes cut from the original print. Now he has reworked Close Encounters, deleting 25 minutes from the original print and incorporating 20 minutes of outtakes and new footage. The result: the "new" Close Encounters is different-and the same...
...posthumous exuberant comic novel, laughter prevails. Ignatius J. Reilly, 30, is a monumental slob whose mere appearance on the streets of New Orleans makes policemen itch to arrest...
...humor that plays upon collective anxieties of a tribe like the Law School by depending on the mere mention of names associated with the collective experience. There is nothing intrinsically funny about "LSAT scores," "Langdell receptionist," or "Roberto Unger." These things make law students laugh the way an itch makes you scratch; it is closer in its workings to irritation than humor...