Word: messing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans probably ought to have some similar punishment for people who make movies that celebrate such figures-without really making up their minds whether to do so humorously, romantically or tragically, thus ending in an uninflected middle. They ought to do a little extra time for involving in the mess actors as gifted as Holbrook and Supporting Players Anthony Hopkins and Gregoire Aslan. -Richard Schickel
...Rockefeller had been nationally wounded by a fellow liberal Republican, Mayor Lindsay. During the winter, New York City sanitation workers went out on strike. As mounds of garbage piled up on the streets, the irate mayor demanded that the Governor call out the National Guard to clean up the mess. Mindful of the disasters that used to occur when Standard Oil employed strike breakers, Rockefeller refused. Ignoring Lindsay, he sat down with the union and worked out a settlement. Lindsay denounced him for "cowardice ... capitulation to extortionist demands ... giving in to blackmail." Though Rockefeller had done what was necessary, Lindsay...
...persistent foe of the health, education and housing programs advocated by Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. He has railed against welfare as destructive of the work ethic and endorsed the Nixon Administration's later abandoned family assistance plan, which contained work incentives, as a way out of the welfare mess. Ford was initially leary of federal revenue sharing but later became an enthusiastic supporter; he saw it as a way to help reduce the role of federal agencies in state and local affairs. "We need a national government that is the servant and not the master of the people...
...best that Greece could get in the face of Turkey's superior military power. The Geneva declaration was almost entirely in Turkey's favor (see story page 27), but as one civil servant in Athens observed: "The people blame the junta for the whole mess and so they know that they have to pay the price of an unfavorable bargain...
...library of the Vienna Municipal Conservatory. Six months ago Gottfried Marcus, a pianist and musicologist, happened across the manu script. This spring the work was per formed on a Viennese television culture short. "I was in the middle of rebuild ing my house, in the midst of the mess with a TV going in the corner, and I happened to hear a cellist playing the Brahms violin sonata," recalls Buchbinder, 27. Elated, the young Austrian pianist contacted Marcus and obtained a photostatic copy of the score. Three weeks ago he sent it to Starker, and arrangements with Ravinia were made...