Word: preying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compassionate side, came off in the end as nothing more than the whines of entertainment industry pros who aren't used to dealing with real reporters, rather than flaks, who should have shut up when Woodward knocked on their doors. The point here is that Woodward approached his prey with the careful, methodical reporting with which he approached his more traditional, acceptable Washington targets--from the Nixon Administration to the Supreme Court. Just as All the President's Men or The Breinren offered a window on tablesus, broader than the subject at hand, Woodward uses Belushi as a lever...
...real fear grips the Democrats. "Mondale's chances are uphill," concedes Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Dave Nagle. Hart partisans give Mondale no chance at all. "Politics has a certain ecology to it," says Hart Adviser Frank Mankiewicz. "Walter Mondale appears to be Ronald Reagan's natural prey...
...days later, the rebels struck again with a textbook ambush (above and right). They boxed in a Soviet convoy by firing rocket-propelled antitank grenades in front of the enemy vehicles and behind them. Then, from their mountain hideouts, they rained heavy machine-gun fire down upon their stranded prey. Forty Soviet vehicles went up in flames, and pillars of thick black smoke billowed hundreds offset into...
...fact, a chief criticism of lotteries is that they prey on the hopes, and wallets, of the poor. "I always felt that it was an insidious way to re-collect our welfare dollars," says Republican State Representative Tony Van Vliet of Oregon. Lottery enthusiasts, however, contend that different games attract different players. New York's high-stakes Lotto seems to be the pick of the upper and middle classes, while three-and four-digit numbers games appeal to a more downscale market. In Arizona, a state-funded study found that lottery regulars are predominantly white males with a median...
...complex and interesting than that, so effective is Under the Ilex as a theater piece. Talmage has a genuine talent for witty dialogue, Charles Nelson Reilly has directed with an inventiveness that is only occasionally overenthusiastic, and the actors are near perfect. One suspects there is more gallantry in Prey's Strachey, more simple romanticism and humanity in Harris' Carrington than either history or the script invested them with. Be that as it may, one also suspects that in a theatrical climate where the domestication of homoexoticism for the middle-class market is a prime order of business...