Word: panning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...press' analysis of the governor's announcement is not meant as slander. The media love their Brattle Street governor. They love when his dead-pan wit turns a mundane press conference into an event that makes HBO's Comedy Central look like church, or when his beefed-up intellect sends them scurrying for a dictionary. Their analysis is not that of critics judging an artist, but instead, that of children trying to show their father they understand what he's up to. Yet these children actually have no idea what their father is up to. His move is too simple...
Launching a carrier into this turbulence isn't much more difficult than flying a kite in a hurricane. Yet Martin Shugrue, no stranger to troubled airlines, insists that Pan American World Airways, a new carrier with an old name, can compete as a low-cost, full-service discount carrier. "We'll make money with a high-quality product at an affordable cost," Shugrue says. Pan Am's promise is cheaper fares without the cramped seats and the bag of peanuts masquerading as in-flight service. Says he: "It's not rocket science...
...most twisted softcore adult movies of them all," later concocted the fake snuff film, Snuff. They specialized in bizarre ways of killing off sexy women (crossbow, electrified earrings, dildo switchblades). Exploitation? Or prophecy? Michael was decapitated in 1977 by the blade of a helicopter crashing atop Manhattan's Pan Am Building...
...dozen black protesters seize Massachusetts Hall at dawn in protest of the Corporation's Gulf Oil Decision. That night, a meeting of 2,000 students in Sanders Theatre calls for a five-day strike against the war and in support of the Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC) seizure of Mass. Hall...
...April 6, 1972, the Pan-African Liberation Committee (PALC) and sympathetic students took over Massachusetts Hall to protest Harvard's ownership of stock in Gulf Oil, which was involved at the time in Angola, a site of Portuguese colonialism...