Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lobstermen in Kennebunkport, Me., are boiling mad about special arrangements for one of the neighbors. They learned last week that the U.S. Coast Guard will enforce a 500-yd. "security zone" in the waters around George Bush's summer home on Walker's Point, site of some of Maine's best lobstering. Whenever the President is in residence, Coast Guard cutters will stop and search lobster boats seeking to enter the zone. Even more frustrating to the 40 or so lobstermen affected: the cutters' propellers tend to get snarled in the traplines, resulting in dozens of lost traps...
...filmmakers are no less rambunctious. Gone are the days when criticism of the system was voiced in picture parables so obscure they sometimes eluded the censors -- and all but the most discerning audiences as well. Now everybody gets the point. Filmmakers are sending a May Day parade of social ills -- class resentments, alcoholism, stifling bureaucracy, domestic brutality, a nationwide streak of malaise -- past the cheers of public opinion. On the reviewing stand, Mikhail Sergeyevich smiles. After all, it's his party...
...language, and history is currently the favored supplier of code words. Thus when Yegor Ligachev and other conservatives cry that denunciations of Stalin are shaking people's faith in the Soviet system, they are really saying that perestroika and glasnost are going too far. Gorbachev's partisans get the point, and respond with redoubled attacks on Stalin and his admirers today...
...chief engineer did not make a point of telling us that "we eat alongside the workers" or demonstrating for us, as guests, how democratic he was. It was all perfectly natural, just like paying afterward for the meal...
What was the hang-up? In a word, says an Alyeska supervisor, "complacency." Lulled by almost twelve years of oil shipping through Valdez without a major accident, Alyeska let its old equipment run down to the point that it was taxed to the limit when it cleaned up a small spill of a mere 1,500 bbl. in January. Workers who had been hired to devote full time to combatting oil spills were replaced by people whose primary duties lay elsewhere. The state government failed to keep Alyeska up to the mark; the legislature denied its watchdog agency funds...