Word: melt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...organize me," he says. He detests reading reports and prefers to have them delivered orally. Most letters from Jimmy Carter, for example, are read to him aloud by the U.S. Ambassador. Because there are so few able men around him, many of Sadat's own directives seem to melt away when they reach Egypt's swollen bureaucracy. The President keeps the important decisions secret; his ministers, and even his wife, usually hear about them the same time the public does. When Sadat finally does arrive at a decision, it is usually irreversible. "He has a will of iron...
...that anyone else under John Clark's flaccid direction is giving her much acting competition. Robert LuPone's Dauphin is such a prancing cipher that one fears the crown that Joan se cures for him at Rheims Cathedral will melt his head. Paul Sparer, as the Inquisitor, gives a saturnine gravity to the renowned and convoluted speech on heresy, but his plea for justice with mercy is a trifle smarmy. Only Philip Bosco as the English Earl of Warwick conveys nobility in voice and bearing...
...intimacy of the pair's telephonic courtship would put Simon in a playwrights' hall of fame if one existed. George and Jennie meet, and love blooms at first sight, a sight for glad eyes since Gillette is an actress of such beguiling, womanly warmth that glaciers would melt at her approach...
...study concludes that saboteurs, properly prepared, could cause a melt down of the core of a nuclear reactor, which would result in a large release of radioactivity...
...Cream, long renowned as the source of the best ice cream in the area, is under new management. Stephen Herrell, the store's founder, sold it to Joseph Crugnale of Somerville, and he says he feels as if he'd been through a divorce. But before you melt in despair, take heart: Crugnale promises neither the ice cream nor the name will change...