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Another stubbornly ubiquitous villain, or maybe scapegoat--for whatever it reveals about Domini's private paranoias--is the executive woman. Sometimes her domain is T.V. production, but she masquerades too as a plant-store employee named Priss, striding into a narrator's office "all body," and telling him. "People like you marry people like me;" as the intense 17-year-old wife of the teenage narrator; even in one post-mortem fantasy, as a formless floating femine "blob" of a soul whose outer layer develops iron patches when her philosophizing outstrips the narrator's comprehension...

Author: By Amy E. Schwartz, | Title: Expository Fantasy | 12/5/1981 | See Source »

Jorge I. Dominguez, professor of Government, yesterday agreed with Regalado that the administration has no policy other than to make verbal threats, saying that "all there really has been from the U.S. government is a lot of hot air." He added that the administration "is using Cuba as a scapegoat in Latin America, as elsewhere...

Author: By Gregory C. Ridgley, | Title: Cuban Waiting for Formal U.S. Policy | 12/2/1981 | See Source »

...Maine, another co-sponsor of the resolution to reject the sale. Cohen is a friend of Presidential Adviser Michael Deaver, and they discussed the issue at length. He also met twice with the President. In their second session, he said that he was afraid Israel would become a scapegoat if the sale were rejected, and that the embers of anti-Semitism would be fanned. But Cohen also told Reagan he feared "another holocaust" if Israel's hostile neighbors were further armed. On the latter point, Reagan was reassuring. He leaned toward the freshman Republican and vowed: "I can pledge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man with the Golden Arm | 11/9/1981 | See Source »

...there's going to be a scapegoat here it's going to be the coach," says one coach pragmatically. But coaches often see the breakdown in player-coach relations as rooted in the athlete who, perhaps because of the absence of scholarships, feels no commitment to either the coach or team...

Author: By Janie Smith, | Title: Why the Superstars Burn Out | 10/24/1981 | See Source »

...team's less-than-stellar performance. Although the Dartmouth contest was the third meet within a week for the Crimson--coming hot on the heels of a victory over Cornell in Ithaca and a second place finish in the Greater Boston CJhampionships--McCurdy dismissed fatigue as a possible scapegoat. "Our team runs with a lot of emotion," he said, adding that the sight of the Dartmouth pack throughout the race may have been discouraging to his runners...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: Harriers Fall to Big Green | 10/17/1981 | See Source »

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