Word: laying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...airstrip in a grimy industrial zone. A down-to-earth Missourian, Wilson, 65, has been known to drop in on the machinists' annual Christmas party with one of his wife's pecan pies. During the airline-industry slump in the early 1970s, however, he did not hesitate to lay off nearly two-thirds of the company's 148,000 workers...
...Rogers commission report is to be given to the President later this week. In unsparing detail, it will lay out, in the words of one commission member, "the awful failures and compromises that ended in that January disaster." Strict new safety procedures and accountability will be recommended, as well as increased astronaut involvement in the decision to launch a shuttle...
...strength as a draftsman on the large scale can easily be assessed from the cartoons for the Detroit Industry frescoes. A drawing like Figure Representing the Black Race has a formal strength to match its chthonic allegorical power; it makes you realize what levels of graphic sophistication lay beneath the populist surface. Such is Rivera at his best, but even at his worst the man's kitsch and bad taste have an orotund wholeheartedness that seems endearing. His mock-surrealist landscapes of the 1940s, together with some of his more contrived social portraits, are rubbish, but they do not spoil...
...youngest, so they would try to take advantage of me by always going for lay-ups--so I had to foul them all the time," she says...
...three pictures were contenders for the grand prize, and Tarkovsky, a Soviet emigre who lay ill with cancer in a Paris hospital, was the emotional favorite. But the jury was moved by different emotions. The Mission is a $23 million epic, starring Robert De Niro and Jeremy Irons, made by a powerful producer (David Puttnam of Chariots of Fire and The Killing Fields) and financed by a company (Goldcrest) on the brink of bankruptcy. Set in 18th century Peru, it is a parable of 20th century liberation theology, of religious imperialists (the noble Jesuits) vs. economic imperialists (the venal Spanish...