Word: laying
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...Hollywood's nouveau novas -- Eddie Murphy, Chevy Chase, Tom Hanks, Dan Aykroyd, Robin Williams, Bill Murray, Pee-wee Herman, Martin Short -- may have won their early stardom cadging laughs on TV or in the burgeoning comedy-club scene (see following story). Yet the Motion Picture Academy continues to lay laurels on lesser mortals whose roles require that they cry over the phone, commit suicide or speak with an English accent...
Duarte's best hope now is that the Guatemala peace initiative will force the Salvadoran rebels to lay down their arms. Under the accord, outside aid to all guerrilla groups must cease, which means that clandestine arms shipments to the guerrillas from Cuba and Nicaragua would stop. Says a State Department official: "It's a definite plus for the Salvadoran government...
...didn't the President call North into his office when the scandal broke last November and ask him to lay out what he had been doing? "Whether our thinking was right or wrong at that point -- and we were all agreed here that with this now exposed and my not having been told, that they ((North and Poindexter)) just had to leave the National Security Council -- they could not continue. So I thought of that before I thought of any questions or anything, and I think they both felt the same...
...waters outside the Persian Gulf resembled a floating parking lot. Scores of empty supertankers, flying the flags of Panama, Japan, Pakistan and many other countries, lay at anchor last week in the Gulf of Oman, as did half a dozen U.S. warships. A menacing cluster of mines had brought the world's busiest oil traffic to a sudden and embarrassing halt. One after another, the explosives bobbed into sight. By week's end at least five had been spotted, and every tiny fishing boat that sailed by was carefully watched in case it tried to plant more of the dangerous...
Putting aside his pessimism, one can admire Bender for trying to defy his own sociological categorization. In New York Intellect, Bender is a historian who is relevent today, and an academic whose writing is clear and accessible to a lay audience...