Word: scene
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Experience publicizing numerous sports, nationally-acclaimed writing ability, familiarity with the Ivy League and familiarity with the Boston collegiate athletic scene were the main characteristics which distinguished Veneziano from the other candidates for the SID position, Cicero said...
...duty. Zhou Fengsuo, 22, a physics student at Qinghua University in Beijing, was among the 21 student leaders named by officials last Tuesday as the country's most-wanted criminals. The next night on television, Zhou was shown being led into a police station for interrogation. The scene then shifted to the home of Zhou Yanrong, the student's sister. Dandling a baby on her lap, her husband at her side, the woman explained that after seeing the wanted notices for her brother, she contacted security officials...
...mind being this year's hot ticket. The $5 million salary he could command for each picture is a perk. Nor has Costner complained about making movie love to Susan Sarandon in a bathtub (Bull Durham) or Sean Young in the No Way Out limo -- the window-steaming sex scene that earned Costner his first priapic appeal. And for an outdoorsman who was a fine athlete in school, there can be few tangier pleasures than playing baseball in Bull Durham and Field of Dreams or playing a cowboy in Silverado. Even in the Nitti-gritty Untouchables, where he earned...
...what might be called Le Carre's People, an exclusive team of TIME correspondents the novelist has consulted through the years. Whenever he needs sophisticated guidance about the far-flung settings of his novels or the kind of characters who populate those worlds, Le Carre travels to the scene of intrigue, seeks out the best reporters he can find and interviews them thoroughly, taking voluminous longhand notes. "It has followed by chance that they are TIME people," he explains. "It's because TIME has the knack of hiring very good local people...
Ealier in the week, Gorbachev had visited the scene of the explosion, acre after acre of which was scorched black by fire. "It seems once again that it is a matter of incompetence, irresponsibility, mismanagement," the grim and angry President told the Congress. "It was nothing less than a shameful outrage. There will be no progress in this country if we have such laxness." Gorbachev then exhorted his listeners to "learn hard lessons from what happened." Last week in the Soviet Union, there was no shortage of hard lessons...