Word: murkier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greyer World. "I've been working too freakin' hard," says Breslin. "I want to escalate my standard of living." So even though he admits to being "an unlettered bum" who has read nothing murkier than Hemingway and Steinbeck, Mr. Breslin is turning novelist. His first novel isn't quite finished, but MGM has already bought the screen rights for $250,000, plus a cut of the gross. Titled The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, it is about the lighter side of the Mafia. To command those prices, Jimmy's agent must be a Sicilian...
...prose is everywhere murkier than usual this year, though one idea for a piece was remarkably sensible: the chronology of the year was scrapped in favor of an essay on the war and Harvard. But the traditional collection of undergraduate writing succumbed to a deathly five-essay section on why-I'm-a-work (-jock,-do-gooder, -singer, and -black militant, respectively...
...changing nature of such activity. Once, most corporate marriages were either vertical (between suppliers and customers) or horizontal (between competitors). The Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts defined the terms for such mergers, and the Supreme Court interpreted the definitions in their strictest sense. Laws and precedent are much murkier regarding the "conglomerate" unions that now account for 70% of merger activity...
DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID. As a Parisian servant girl employed in a French provincial home, Jeanne Moreau grapples with family skeletons and smoothly finds her way through the murkier passages of a bleak, bitter satire directed by Luis Buñuel (Viridiand...
...Murkier Waters. Though Johnson likes domestic politics best, there were times during the year when he found himself totally immersed in the less familiar and murkier waters of foreign policy. Less than two months after he took over, he had to cope with rioting in Panama over U.S. management of the Canal Zone, and in the weeks