Word: itemizers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...National Transportation Safety Board release their reports on the Valdez spill. Meanwhile, late-night comics continue to rip into the skipper, and several songs about a drunken Hazelwood play on Alaskan radio stations. Not long ago, a businessman called Hazelwood to ask permission to market a novelty item called Ole Hazelwood -- a liquor bottle filled with oil and water...
...into the night helping to reassemble the pieces of the biggest deal of his life, but he was feeling particularly ebullient at noon the next day. As he met with reporters last Friday, the chairman of Warner Communications playfully handed out black-and-yellow Batman lapel pins, a promotional item for his studio's big summer film. Shunning a chair, the executive casually plopped himself down on the floor and began extolling the deal he hoped to see through. Said he: "There could not be a better fit in the world...
...myth. He creates a Gotham City that looms like a rube's nightmare of Manhattan. He strips the Bruce Wayne legend down to its chassis, dumping Robin and the goony rogues' gallery. This is a face-off between two men in weird masks: one in a leathery black item out of a dominatrix's pleasure chest, the other with a grin frozen into a rictus. One man obsessed with good, the other enthralled by evil: Batman (Michael Keaton) and the Joker (Jack Nicholson...
...Bush Administration also believed too much in what has become conventional wisdom, even among moderates: arms control is only one item on the larger agenda; the U.S. must simultaneously press the Kremlin on human rights and regional conflicts. All true. But arms control has always had a special role. In good times and bad, it keeps the superpowers talking about their one supreme mutual interest, the avoidance of war. Whichever side seems more engaged in that process is going to have an advantage on other issues and with other countries...
Though Deans Watson and Monro stated vehemently that the tabloid scandal would in no way affect the considered changes in parietal rules, the conflict between students and officials continued to be an item of interest for the rest of the year...