Word: marteli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard is "concerned not with trying to make this [meeting an example of how] we're trying to get you," but rather to circumvent the problem itself, Marius said. He compared the lecture to shopping at K-Mart, where signs constantly warn that shoplifters will be prosecuted...
...bone-dry Brownsville, Texas, the rain came fast and furious, sending pedestrians scurrying for protection. Dozens took shelter at La Tienda Amigo, a retail mart near the bridge to Matamoros, Mexico, across the Rio Grande. Downpour turned to deluge, dumping two inches of rain in 30 minutes -- apparently enough to collapse the structure housing the store into a murderous heap of concrete and metal. Dozens of people were crushed or trapped in the rubble. One wall tumbled outward, killing a woman sitting in a car parked in front of the store. Anthony Padilla, a photographer for the Brownsville Herald, witnessed...
...stars who have been injured by playing gay roles have been those who did not appear to be acting, who were so natural that they seemed to be playing themselves. Laurence Luckinbill's agent, for instance, warned him not to accept the part of a bisexual schoolteacher in Mart Crowley's movie of The Boys in the Band (1970), which took a pioneering look at the gay world...
WITNESS Boston Globe columnist Mike Barnicle's newfound admiration for Harvard's Kennedy School of Government--after, he said, years of believing the K-School was to politics what a K-Mart security guard is to policing. His opinion changed after reading about the K-School's plan to give "Officer of the University" status to a Texas couple in return for a $500,000 "gift." Barnicle then decided that the K-School would be right at home in the world of the State House...
...interests still conflict in many ways. The Soviets are primarily interested in producing goods that they can export to the West in exchange for hard currency. They hope to find an American partner, for instance, to manufacture their designer fashions, some of which were shown at the Dallas Apparel Mart in March. But like the clothes, many of the products they want to make are already produced in abundant quantities elsewhere. Meanwhile, their Western partners, who are mainly eager to sell products and services in the Soviet Union, must cope with the nonconvertibility of Soviet currency. No matter how profitable...