Word: pies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...congenial dissenter, Roy Brooks, rose to speak. "Being against this," said the retired Army colonel, "is like being opposed to motherhood and apple pie. But it is pretty silly for us to be advising the country on foreign policy." Brooks was no longer smiling. "Those people who are pushing for it are the same people who argued for unilateral disarmament. They want us to roll over on our backs like a defeated dog and say everything will go on happily ever after." Bernard Friedelson, a businessman, was anything but defeatist in his rebuttal. Said he: "To reverse the trend toward...
...fiscal 1982, the Antarctic program has been effectively cut by 10%, curtailing scientific activity and delaying needed repairs at McMurdo. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union continues to expand its operations on the ice, with a total of seven research bases strategically scattered over nearly all of the claimed pie slices...
...support the burden of the show, becoming a center of gravity around which the other actors can spin merrily. Maybe only Donny with his squeaky clean image could believably defend honor and country and still compliment his gal with, "French pastry ain't worth thirty cents compared to Apple Pie...
...character in the exhibition is Robert Arneson, 51, whose favorite subject is his own head, blown up to more than Roman proportions and subjected to various odd indignities. In Splat, 1978, it has taken a bucketful of liquid white clay full in the face, like a vaudevillian copping a pie; a disembodied brown finger wipes the gunk away from his right eye socket. Arneson's mocking self-monuments are carried through with vast gusto and panache, and his technical resources seem limitless; besides, his formal ambitions are clear enough, below the funky surface. Even so, his work...
Insurance firms hope to capture a big share of the I.R.A. pie by focusing on lucrative group plans for companies interested in helping their employees save for retirement. Under such arrangements, workers can have a set sum deducted regularly from their paychecks and invested in an I.R.A. administered by the insurance company. Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. has already recruited the employees at 500 firms, including...