Word: kennings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most Restive. In addition to Gotbaum, leaders of some 20 other unions agreed to the compromise, but three key labor chieftains refused to go along: Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers; Ken McFeeley, president of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association; and Michael Maye, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association. Since the members of these unions are generally more highly paid than Gotbaum's municipal workers, they would be hurt the most by the arrangement. Their members are also the most restive; in fact, Maye, a boisterous former Golden Gloves boxer, was recently voted into office...
...this production director Michael Kahn has made all this especially clear, with the help of Jane Greenwood's costumes and Ken Billington's lighting. In the first Sicilia scenes, everyone is in snowy white. In Bohemia, John Conklin's handsome cyclorama of hanging Lucite tubes is lit with the green of vegetation, and the actors wear colorful yellows and greens. When we return to Sicilia for the last act, the whites have been softened with patches of light grey. In addition, the character of Time (Powers Boothe), whom Shakespeare brings in only to bridge the celebrated 16-year hiatus, appears...
...history of sport. As if they needed a down-to-earth incentive, the two fighters shook hands on a whopping $1 million personal bet. "It will be a thrilla in Manila," proclaimed Ali. If he gets by Smokin' Joe, Ali promises to fight George Foreman and Ken Norton, and apparently Foreman can hardly wait. Last week his manager, Leroy Jackson, was in Manila to propose a super multimillion-dollar package for an Ali-Foreman rematch, featuring, as sideshows, a golf tournament with Jack Nicklaus and Johnny Miller, and a tennis extravaganza that would include Jimmy Connors and Chris Evert...
...Ken Jamieson's successor as chair man and chief executive officer will be Exxon's current president, Clifton Garvin, 53, a forceful if taciturn Virginia-born engineer who rose through the corporate ranks via the company's burgeoning chemical operations. The new president: Howard C. Kauffmann, 52, a senior vice president (one of five), who has been running Exxon's operations in Europe and Latin America for most of the past ten years. One Exxon executive, who knows them both, describes them as "cast in the same mold-hard businessmen, not extraverted, used to tough decisions...
...performance was a triumph. With his team down 2-0 to the Dallas Tornado at the beginning of the second half, Pelé set up a goal with a pinpoint pass to teammate Mordechai Shpigler. Then he scored the tying goal by deflecting a Shpigler kick past Tornado Goalkeeper Ken Cooper with a deft flick of his head...