Word: messiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Parkinson and Thatcher learned of the interview in the predawn hours Friday. The resignation was announced at 9:45 a.m. Said a senior Tory minister: "At some point, someone in this affair lied." In the messiest possible way, Thatcher had lost a close personal protege and left herself open to questions about her judgment of people and events...
Rumble Fish is the messiest, most provocative inkblot of the year. On the naturalistic level, Francis Coppola's film is a botch, a hoot. The two main characters-Rusty-James (Matt Dillon), a 17-year-old punk who figures he moves with the swagger of stardom, and his older brother the Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke), tired of being an outlaw legend in Rusty-James' eyes-are little more than the sum of their mannerisms. Their father (Dennis Hopper) is a philosophizing sot who comes and goes with the whim. Rusty-James' girlfriend (Diane Lane) is a mere...
...failed off-Broadway actor named Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) achieves wisdom as well as professional success when he dresses up as a woman called Dorothy Michaels, becomes a star on a television soap opera and a kind of feminist media heroine as well. The movie was one of the messiest productions in recent history, for a time informally retitled "The Troubled Tootsie" in the gossip columns. No fewer than eight writers, three directors and a spare producer or two worked on it. There were hair-raising stories of Hoffman and Director Sydney Pollack yelling and throwing things at each other...
...state legislatures across the country to draw new boundaries to match the latest census counts. After more than a year of political swapping and swearing, 21 states still have not finished their redistricting chores. A panel of three federal judges in Texas just settled the nation's messiest battle by redrawing six of 27 districts to reflect the growing number of blacks and Hispanics in Dallas and south Texas. In New Jersey last week federal judges declared the plan approved by the Democratic state legislature unconstitutional and demanded a new plan by March 22. The discarded maps, which...
...Pfeiffer firing was among the messiest in recent American business history, and the departures at NBC may not yet be over. Silverman, an industry legend since he was programming chief at CBS, was also rumored to be on the way out. The latest sacking made RCA Chairman Edgar H. Griffiths, 59, look especially bad. Pfeiffer's executive decapitation came just three weeks after Griffiths summarily dismissed RCA President and Heir Apparent Maurice R. Valente, 51, whom he had recruited from I.T.T. only six months earlier...