Word: path
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movies must succeed on more than a simply a male and female star alone, and here The First Deadly Sin fails. As a murder mystery there is simply no suspense or doubt--it travels the straight and narrow path from beginning, middle, to end, never throwing a curve by presenting an alternate suspect, never even temporarily blocking Delaney's inexorable march to solution of the puzzle. The ingredients of the film are delicious on their own merits--it's only when so combined that the recipe fails to pan out, as neither Sinatra's nor Dunaway's performance can provide...
...urban person's idea of a flower, the sort of thing you might find decorating the Citicorp lobby, or around Lincoln Center's glass and steel and concrete. The center of the stage is a huge black reflecting pool, a tar pit to trap Narcissus; around it is a path of Harvard Square brick, and around that a "lawn" of torn Hefty bags. Everything is unhealthy and artificial, beautiful in its way, but beautiful for adults only. Welcome to the East Side...
...sense, Cunningham has become a role model--not for the path successful women might pursue, but instead for the treatment women in business can expect. For three weeks one of the leading female executives in the nation, Cunningham resigned as a Bendix Corporation vice president because innuendoes that her "meteoric" rise had benefited from a close personal relationship with Bendix's chairman made it impossible for her to remain. Meanwhile, William Agee, the chairman--and the man responsible for the promotion decision under fire--has suffered embarrassment but remains secure in his post...
...staying in power. The only way for us, if we want to have any impact at all, is somehow to copy them.' This was where the split began to grow, because there were other people saying, 'Wait a minute. There is a great danger in following this path toward Government intervention.' " He made very clear his conviction that unity has been restored because the "pragmatists" have now conceded to the conservatives, and equally clear that he was not using the word pragmatist as a compliment...
College administrators followed a traditional--and reprehensible--path by railroading the new "kiosk rule" through the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life (CHUL) in an "emergency" meeting during reading period last spring. The kiosks greeted students as a fait accompli this fall, and despite objections by many undergraduate organizations, administrators have given every indication they will enforce the rule through warnings, fines and, ultimately, revocation of official privileges from disobedient organizations...