Word: mischiefs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proportion to the affair. Columnist David Broder of the Washington Post, whose newspaper has been among the most heated in pursuit, last week deplored the unthinking usage of the suffix "gate" for matters that in no way echo the vast moral subversion of the Nixon era. Wrote Broder: "The mischief in labeling is that it sometimes distorts reality. On the basis of what is known now, not only is this not another Watergate, it is almost exactly the opposite." Reagan aides have talked to reporters. The President has ordered full cooperation with investigators. And he has pledged to dismiss anyone...
...make them fortile. Isolated and illiterate, the villagers blindly accept such prescriptions and live in typical medieval terrors of the hellfires that await them. New ideas are not encouraged; when Martin returns with a newfound literacy, one sage man noted "reading and writing leads to all kinds of mischief." And while Martin is revered for his outlandish stories culled during his travels, he is also rebuked for having deserted the family...
Arafat responded with a campaign of persuasion, urging the rebels to return peaceably to their ranks. Then when Gaddafi gave a speech denouncing Fatah's "reactionary leaders," Arafat lashed out at him for his mischief making and, more important, was able to portray the mutiny as a result of external interference. Gaddafi has been none too popular with the Palestinian leadership since last summer, when he told Arafat that P.L.O. fighters should commit suicide rather than leave Beirut...
...complexity of the intertwining roles called for more rehearsal time than the actors apparently got. Bob Gunton is a shade too stilted as James, hoping perhaps that physical constriction could simulate advanced middle age. Frank Langella moves with grand assurance across Broadway's Longacre stage, ranging from impish mischief to laceration of soul. As Eleanor and her alter ego, Damon and Kerr lend their roles compelling honesty, and Roxanne Hart is a five-alarm sexual conflagration...
NONFICTION: Eleni, Nicholas Gage The Forties, Edmund Wilson ∙The Last Lion, Winston Spencer Churchill, William Manchester Lectures on Don Quixote, Vladimir Nabokov ∙A Private View, Irene Mayer Selznick ∙White Mischief, James...