Word: leone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raises questions about the professional conduct of Nixon's principal lawyers: James St. Clair, J. Fred Buzhardt and Charles Alan Wright. It alleges that they, as well as former White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig, repeatedly impeded the work of the prosecutors, first Archibald Cox and then Leon Jaworski. They did so, according to the report, by delaying the delivery of evidence, sometimes claiming they could not find it, until courts required that it be produced. Wright, a law professor at the University of Texas, was specifically cited for having vouched in court for Nixon's assertion...
...surfaces late in the film, when we find out that Sonny is robbing the bank to finance his male lover's sex-change operation. (It's true, it's true, pipes up Lumet at the end of the film, flashing tidbit titles on the screen with such information as "Leon is now a woman and lives in New York".) The fluttery, tearful character of Leon, on screen for only 15 minutes, elicits more sympathy for Sonny and does more to establish his humanity than all the antics we've already seen. Other shreds of Sonny's life flash briefly...
...meditative disciplines," says Senior Editor Leon Jaroff, who edited the story and is well known as a skeptic, "TM is the one that seems to have really caught on. But there is still plenty of debate over the efficacy of TM as opposed to other methods...
While movies like Towering Inferno, Tidal Wave and Earthquake were mesmerizing audiences of disaster buffs over the past year, Senior Editor Leon Jaroff and Associate Editor Frederic Golden, who writes our Science section, were carefully following a series of little-noticed events and discoveries that are leading scientists closer to achieving a critical breakthrough: the ability to predict, and possibly even control, earthquakes. Golden, who wrote this week's cover package and Jaroff, who edited it, have both been keeping tab on seismological research for several years. "We'd covered each advance piecemeal," Jaroff says. "Finally," he adds...
...most perfect users of words." The line was more hopeful than prophetic. Today, many believe that the American language has lost not only its melody but a lot of its meaning. Schoolchildren and even college students often seem disastrously ignorant of words; they stare, uncomprehending, at simple declarative English. Leon Botstein, president of New York's Bard College, says with glum hyperbole: "The English language is dying, because it is not taught. " Others believe that the language is taught badly and learned badly because American culture is awash with clichés, officialese, political bilge, the surreal boobspeak...