Word: rashness
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...plot is serviceably convoluted, involving a Secret Service agent (Chevy Chase), a paranoid Graustarkian duke and his Sicilian assassin-in-waiting, a pair of Axis spies, 25 Japanese camera buffs, four dead dogs and 150 little people. (Make that 151: Carrie Fisher plays their den mother.) But Director Steve Rash's pacing is slack, the lighting is inappropriately murky, and eventually one tires of the endless string of tall stories and short-people jokes. Like Honky Tank Freeway, this movie is in desperate need of an ace farceur like Preston Sturges-and a niggardly accountant to ride herd...
...Mujahedin want a modern Islamic state, a fact that undercuts the appeal of the mullahs and their obsession with the past. The guerrillas are estimated to have as many as 100,000 people under arms, with several hundred thousand additional sympathizers. The clerics have accused the Mujahedin of a rash of devastating bombings, including the June 28 explosion at Islamic Republic Party headquarters that may have killed as many as 150 people...
...sudden rash of work stoppages, the first cases of labor unrest in Poland since March, could hardly have come at a worse time for Party Boss Stanislaw Kania. Not only is he trying to grapple with the country's worst postwar economic crisis, amid shortages of everything from basic foodstuffs to vodka and cigarettes, but he faces a key test at this week's crucial party congress. Renewed unrest could create a hard-line backlash at the session, one which will determine the party's leadership and policies at a crucial juncture for the nation...
...students, mechanics, a bus driver, a television producer, a few men on welfare and a couple of small businessmen. Says Ron Bricker, father of five, a burly television programmer: "You can't usually sit down with another guy to say, 'Gee, what are your thoughts on diaper rash...
This year, however, seems to offer powerful evidence of a trend towards increased tenuring of women. In the biggest rash of hiring tenured women in the University's 345-year history. Harvard appointed four female professors, who will boost the number of tenured women to an unprecedented 16 when they assume their posts July 1. That burst prompts Thomas E. Crooks, special assistant to Rosovsky for affirmative action, to cite 1980-81 as a "breakthrough year...