Word: phrased
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...administrative error." Mortal sin and venial sin were good enough for St. Augustine but not for Dean Rosovsky, who has come up with a third theological category: administrative sin. What is the penance reuired for absolution? Or may it be obtained by presidential pardon or by silence? His phrase brings back memories of Nixon's plaintive comment at the time of Watergate: "I was responsible, but I'm not to blame." Thus do former presidents and deans square their shoulders and assume the burdens of their deeds, while others twist slowly in the wind...
...hundred years since James penned the phrase, the men and women with offices on the hall's upper floors have begun to wonder about the neurological basis of that impulse. And they're using mainframe computers to do their research...
After the conference, I had the opportunity to review the contract itself. It contains a reference to "services of a confidential nature" and then defines services as "coordinating and chairing a conference...at the unclassified level." Professor Safran assured me that the initial phrase alluded only to the conference, which is by nature public, and did not preclude him from publicizing the source of funds. In fact, by that time the source of funds had been made public by the press and to the participants in the conference by Professor Safran. There are three problems associated with the handling...
...mansion variety, that he allowed himself no time for dialogue or business that rises above the mechanical. Such good performers as Madeline Kahn, Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan and Martin Mull are driven breathless and charmless trying to keep up with the plot's inane demands. To amend a phrase: Who cares who killed Mr. Boddy...
...port of Sharm el Sheikh, the high-spirited Americans, dressed for the most part in blue jeans and tennis shoes, spent a day at Cairo's luxurious Hyatt El Salam Hotel. Many soldiers stopped in the Hyatt's Bazaar Shop to buy such Christmas gifts as papyrus, Arabic phrase books and necklaces adorned with Sphinx pendants. "They were laughing and dancing a little to the belly-dance music playing in the shop," recalled Proprietor Nagui Makari. The Americans, guarded by Egyptian uniformed police and plainclothesmen, enjoyed an early-afternoon meal in the grand ballroom, dining on tomato soup, roast chicken...