Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less traveling around the country in the next few weeks and more informal stumping in New Hampshire, including question-and-answer sessions. He has agreed to a formal TV debate with his opponents in South Carolina, though he is still wary of being trapped in some chance remark that he may have to take back later. "I'm a little gun shy," he admits. "I'm fearful that I'll find myself again faced with a distortion of something that...
...winter's first heavy snow fell on Tehran last week, blocking the streets and prompting one frustrated U.S. newsman to remark: "The angry gods are speaking." Officials in Tehran and Washington were undeniably angry, whatever the disposition of the gods. On charges that their reporting has been "unfair to Iran and its revolution," the 86 remaining American media representatives in the country were expelled; British and Western European correspondents were put on notice that they might be next (see PRESS). The Carter Administration, faced with mounting domestic pressure over the hostages, continued its efforts to organize an international economic...
...only does President Carter not deserve to be criticized for his remark to the Shah that "Iran is a stable island in the middle of a sea of turmoil," but he has been proven right. It is hardly a year since the Shah's departure and the whole area has gone upside down...
Though the remark brought guffaws, the basic issue before the court is serious: What is a manufacturer's responsibility when injury results from the use of a product? That question is currently being addressed in a number of potentially far-reaching cases. To date, Ford has been the target of more than 50 civil suits involving allegations that Pintos made from 1971 through 1976 are unusually prone to catching fire when hit from the rear. But in the Indiana trial, the company is facing criminal charges of reckless homicide, the first such action ever brought against an automaker...
...Frolics and Detours of a Short Little Hebrew Man." There is admiration for the creator of the 2,000-Year-Old Man, but it is undermined by the portentous remark that "by playing a character who was immortal, Brooks may have staked his principal claim to immortality as a comedian." And why, after recalling the freebooting hilarity of Young Frankenstein, does Tynan resonate like a Viennese psychiatrist? "We have seen that Brooks is driven by a fear, amounting to hatred, of mortality; and what is Young Frankenstein but the story of a man who succeeds in defeating death...