Word: jettison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joseph Papp's Public Theater, where Von Richthofen is housed, has been in a serious dramatic slump for the past two seasons. Surely, the one way not to soar again is to jettison sense, taste and judgment. -By T.E. Kalem
...relations with the U.S. We think we should be friends and want to do everything we can for friendship. Of course, we cannot jettison our basic policies. They are not thought up, they are thought out-considered. The tendency in the U.S. is to assume that a person is either 100% with you or not with you. This is not realistic. You can be with a person on some issues and not on others. My goal is to try to show the reality of India, that it is a country with enormous problems but trying to solve them, that...
Woody Allen has chosen to jettison those aspects of his comedy that made him a national endearment, while clinging to acting and directing mannerisms that even his audience may have outgrown. Has he lost the knack? Or just misplaced it? An answer should come soon enough. His next film-not a period piece, we are advised-surfaces at Christmas. Pray it's not called Twelfth Night. -By Richard Corliss
...Reagan's Rose Garden homily on the virtues of prayer in schools, the Justice Department advised the Senate that a pending bill to override the 1962 Supreme Court decision banning such prayer was probably unconstitutional. Presidential support for a prayer amendment will persuade the Senate leadership to jettison its pro-prayer bill, but will not necessarily give the New Right what it wants. Reason: there is virtually no chance that Congress will pass a school-prayer amendment this year...
...strongly counseling Israel to adhere to the Camp David accords--and specifically to its pledge to yield the Sinai--the United States was right on the mark. Should Israel renege on that treaty, it would jettison all hope of peace in the Middle East. That, for all who find Israel an inspiration and a hope for the future, would be tragic...