Word: roughhewn
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...showdown at last week's meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in Vienna was taut and grim. At one of the long rectangular tables sat Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the elegantly groomed Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia. At another, roughhewn and tieless, was Seyyed Mohammad Gharazi of Iran. The issue before them was the control of OPEC itself. The result: a draw that deepened the most severe crisis in OPEC'S 22-year history and raised doubts about whether the organization can ever function as an effective cartel...
...even as the bombs were falling on Beirut, a political storm was raging in Jerusalem. At its epicenter was the roughhewn Israeli Defense Minister, Ariel Sharon, who had directed the invasion of Lebanon from the beginning. Apparently wanting to destroy as much of the P.L.O. as he could before being obliged to accept a permanent cease-fire in Lebanon, Sharon had paid less and less attention to what his colleagues in the Begin government were thinking and had begun launching operations on his own authority...
While a very roughhewn justice is dealt the plot, Trinculo, the jester, has become a blowsy demimondaine (Lola Pashalinski), and her companion, the drunken butler Stephano (Louis Zorich), looks like a disheveled French chef with a torn toque blanche. The pair do a crude parody of Mae West...
...first edition in 1855. The poem cycle became an organic reflection of its author as he journeyed through the. South, the Great Lakes, the Hudson Valley, to Washington, where he cared for the Civil War's wounded and dying, and finally to Camden, N.J., where he erected a roughhewn burial vault to house his bones and those of his family. In a sense Whitman's entire life was an act of ingathering and what Kaplan calls "a demonstration of the regenerative power of personality, change and language." The biographer himself is to be congratulated for renewing the poet...
Fraser, a tall, roughhewn man who began his union career while loading fenders for Chrysler in a De Soto plant in 1935, has a broad view of his new job. He intends to use his seat as a "pulpit of advocacy." In an unusual statement to Chrysler shareholders in this year's proxy statement, Fraser said he plans an active part in discussions on nearly all topics, including worker health and safety, plant closings, new products and major investments. But he says that he will not participate in any company discussions on pay negotiations. Says Fraser: "I believe...