Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that "lovers and madmen have such seething brains," that lovers, in short, are too full of folly, too much aflame, too rich in their imaginations. Nowadays, often, our problem seems just the opposite. Prudence makes us measure out our hearts with coffee spoons, and discretion is the better part of Valium. Love has always been a messy affair, and that is precisely why it cannot be easily legislated. Make romance a thing for lawyers, and callousness and shame turn into crime and punishment. Yet today we have girls suing their dates for standing them up, and star-crossed ex-lovers...
...part, Paramount dropped its $200-a-share hostile bid for Time after the supreme court ruling. The decision upheld Allen's finding that Time's management acted properly when it responded to Paramount's raid by converting the Time-Warner deal from a stock swap, which required shareholder approval, to a leveraged purchase, which needed no such vote. Paramount Chairman Martin Davis said he would "continue aggressively to build our core business in publishing and entertainment." Last week Paramount agreed to sell its financial-services subsidiary, Associates First Capital, to Ford Motor for $3.35 billion, which would give the communications...
...There was a real hope on the part of the Salinas administration that the new White House team would very quickly have debt, drug and trade policies in place and that all the decisions regarding Mexico would be made rationally and coherently, that Mexico would have somebody to deal with in the U.S. who is both in charge and thoroughly knowledgeable on the subject. There is a tendency in Mexico to project its own centralized, omnipotent presidency onto the U.S. side, where things do not work that...
...future, he has been told, is elsewhere: in the suburbs, the country, anywhere but the city. Nonsense, says Whyte. "The core of the city has held. It has not gone to hell." What is more, he argues, "the city remains a magnificent place to do business, and that is part of the rediscovery of the center. While we are losing a lot of functions that we used to enjoy, we are intensifying the most important function of all -- a place for coming together...
...Shamir was fudging the facts. Jamil Tarifi, a West Bank lawyer associated with the P.L.O., confirmed the talks and implied that he would report on the meeting to P.L.O. chairman Yasser Arafat. By meeting with Tarifi, insisted Labor Party official Yossi Beilin, Shamir made the P.L.O. leader implicitly part of the bargaining process. Said Beilin: "That there is negotiation with the P.L.O. is quite clear...