Word: relentlessness
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...loyalty have been deeply affected by the continuing bloodshed in Lebanon. "I lost patience a long time ago," the President noted sharply to reporters on returning from Camp David the weekend before Israel's latest assault. More than anything else, the vivid television coverage of Israel's relentless pummeling of civilian areas has altered the President's thinking. Referring to one powerful image broadcast a week ago, an aide says: "That picture of the baby with arms burnt had more impact on him than 50 position papers." An Administration aide attaches even more importance to the President...
...angrily told a frosty private-school audience in 1981. "So is the Transit Authority. But none of you is about to say to the people of New York, "Let them ride limousines.'" Hechinger spoke from the era when, whatever education's difficulties in execution, the underlying philosophy required a relentless drive for improvement. The post-World War Two birth of the equal opportunity principle took place in a period of increasing funding and optimism. Practical difficulties which later emerged seemed for years to herald not collapse but maturity, a challenge which would lead to regulation and compromise. Basic competency, like...
...utterly unexpected. By the time this lift comes along, one feels numbed and battered by the movie's relentless vulgarity. Whorehouse began as a Playboy article by Larry L. King about the life and death of a not-too-bawdy house known as the Chicken Ranch. The process of mythologizing the basic material started with a Broadway musical. By now the misguided newsman whose crusade shut down the historical Chicken Ranch has evolved into an unbelievably flamboyant TV reporter...
...better than governments." Farouk gets an idea where Ahmed might be, and the taxi is off again, passing a mosque with a charred black wall on which some child has painted a bright blue plane dropping bright blue bombs. Rubbish burning everywhere heats the air from below as the relentless sun works from the top. In a marketplace in a Palestinian camp, where Ahmed is thought to be located, a walleyed woman asks furiously: "What do you think of these dogs, the Arabs?" A camp security guard points out a grape arbor on a roof and explains that Palestinians create...
Recession. The word no longer seems adequate to describe the relentless turmoil that is shaking the world economy. More and more politicians, businessmen and economists are beginning to have a few haunting fears that this economic decline could spiral out of control, leading to a breakdown in the economic system. Said Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau at the recent Versailles economic summit: "We are moving from crisis to catastrophe." Warns Paul McCracken, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Nixon: "The world economy is balanced on a knife-edge and could easily plunge into another...