Word: minority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...check here Jerry...for $2.6 million." They smile sweetly while Lewis grins maniacally, they dutifully promise to raise even more next year and yea unto the generations, and then they trot off stage while Ed McMahon, the world's only professional introducer, welcomes the next guest. All the approved minor vices are there--Anheuser-Busch, the roller skater rink operators with nubile figure skaters in tow), and even the president of Harley-Davidson, which sells choppers. And, of course, there's McDonalds, ten years a telethon sponsor, with its well-scrubbed crew members presenting checks. "From our employees and customers...
Norman Carlson, director of the Bureau of Prisons, estimates that one-third of the 1,800 either had committed only minor crimes or had been mistakenly detained. The rest he divides evenly between "ordinary criminals" and those who are "almost indescribably dangerous." The challenge, of course, is determining which are which. Associate Attorney General Rudolph Guiliani says that the only way to sift through the cases is to listen to the tape recordings of the initial interviews between the refugees and INS officers made last year-a time-consuming process-and that Shoob is rushing the Government. Shoob claims...
What is remarkable about Meryl Streep's brief film career?Sarah is her first really big role?is that she has brought this same feeling of inevitability even to relatively minor parts. In The Deer Hunter she had only a few important scenes, but it requires a wrenching effort now to imagine another actress playing Linda, Christopher Walken's shy girlfriend. Casual television viewers, who cared not at all that she had made her reputation as a stage actress at the Yale School of Drama and at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in New York City, were struck...
...Neapolitan" spirit of the show appears, not in high religious painting or in official portraiture, but in the "minor" and decorative work: the bright frothing of shells and red coral up the side of a Capodimonte porcelain ewer, for instance, or the gross theatrical energy of the silver-gilt devotional statues. Perhaps the most striking of these is a bust of St. Irene protecting Naples from lightning. The city is held up by a cherub, and the saint holds out her right palm: a gilt thunderbolt is stuck in it. Wonderwoman does it again. The Neapolitans liked their religion brassy...
...girl at the harpsichord, the other a young woman learning to draw, are vinegary, weird and hilarious all at once. It is as though the talents of a Longhi had been conjoined with those of Hogarth, and the result applied to Naples and its seedy corps of connoisseurs and minor literati...