Word: labeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These are people who are inclined to pick a title that suits them after they act." Indeed, the most famous such group, Islamic Jihad (Holy War), apparently exists solely as a disembodied and anonymous telephone identification. It has no known central leadership or defined membership; it is essentially a label or tag used by various Shi'ite terrorists to claim responsibility for many of the bombings, kidnapings and acts of random violence over the past two years...
Most journalists are acutely aware of the perils of playing into the terrorists' hands and hyping the story. Many news organizations, including TIME, last week withheld information voluntarily or at the request of Government agencies. According to an ABC insider, the network had planned to label its coverage "America Held Hostage," echoing the network's tag line for the Iranian crisis. But when staffers protested, the idea was dropped. Though Amal leaders have displayed the same eagerness to talk with reporters that Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr did five years ago, there is a crucial difference: Berri, unlike Banisadr, is also...
...giving way to a new melodic sensuousness. The pounding, rock-influenced sound was still there, but hints of traditional harmony had begun to creep in. "I just couldn't throw out my Western music and education entirely," he explains. Today he no longer considers his music minimalist, although the label has stuck...
...label of wunderkind can be a fearsome burden for any mere mortal. When Peter Sellars, 27, was named director of the new American National Theater at Washington's Kennedy Center last June, his appointment was greeted with both shock and greedy anticipation. This was, after all, the Harvard prodigy who had made his name with audacious updatings of Shakespeare, transplanted Handel's opera Orlando to Cape Canaveral and spiced up Maxim Gorky's 1904 play Summerfolk with songs by George Gershwin. Yet his first offering at Kennedy Center, a production of Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I directed by Timothy...
...party that defied the special interests for the benefit of the ordinary voter, Reagan hopes to re-establish the G.O.P. as the majority party for the first time in more than half a century. Optimistic Republican strategists believe they can finally rid the party of the country-club conservative label that has clung to it since the days of Coolidge and Hoover. "The President has in his hands the weapon with which to forever dismantle the New Deal coalition," exults New Right Strategist Richard Viguerie...