Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...woman who served as his Assistant for Public Liaison-his emissary to women, ethnics and other demanding constituent groups. "A flake and a clown," some staffers grumbled openly when she made headlines with her impulsive acts-prematurely calling for Bert Lance's resignation, injudiciously using her office to round up guests for a fund raiser to pay off her old campaign debts, inviting homosexual activists to the White House. Only two weeks ago, she vehemently denied that her resignation was imminent. "If you reporters would quit bothering me," she stormed, "I could get back to work." Four days later...
...house was a public nuisance and began trying to evict its residents. All belong to a self-styled back-to-nature cult called MOVE (according to members, the name does not stand for anything). Last week the odd state of siege-which has cost Philadelphia some $1.2 million for round-the-clock police surveillance-approached a showdown when a city judge issued warrants for the arrest of 21 MOVE members...
Instead one wades deeper into ever shallowing waters. The beach house belongs to a fragile and frigid family: Dad (E.G. Marshall) is preoccupied with his lawyering; Mom (Geraldine Page) is round the bend for causes never fully explained, but presumably having to do with everybody's failure to talk and touch with any real warmth. Their three daughters are a successful poet (Diane Keaton) married to a novelist who boozes because her reviews are better than his; an actress (Kristin Griffith) who can only get parts on TV; and a young woman (Marybeth Hurt) with the spirit...
...weeks ago to extend El Al's landing rights beyond New York City to four other cities. El Al will probably start flying to Los Angeles next April and later add Chicago, Miami and Boston. In November it intends to offer a no-frills, no-meals "holiday" class round trip between New York and Tel Aviv for $499, vs. the lowest current fare of $628. In July the line's only competitor on the route, TWA, began offering reduced fares, and it plans to match...
Martin's weepy departure was the result of the latest and most savage round of acrimony. It began two weeks ago when Jackson committed the cardinal baseball sin of insubordination, twice ignoring Martin's signal to swing away. He bunted foul on the third strike for an automatic out. That did it. Martin's hair-trigger nerves were already frayed and his health deteriorated by pressure and the search for solace in liquor. He paused only long enough to smash a radio and a beer bottle against his office wall, then suspended Jackson indefinitely...