Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Liberace and Rock Hudson, may have worked there, and the movie industry may have nearly as high a concentration of gays as New York City. But the town has not been devastated by AIDS. Says a writer: "In the top echelons of Hollywood, people are always looking over their shoulder. Caution leads to sexual sobriety, and that could save their lives...
...Among them, he declared, was Secretary of State George Shultz, who opposed the Iran deals but, claimed North, "knew in sufficiently eloquent terms what I had done" for the contras. Shortly before he was fired, North said, Shultz took him aside at a party, "put his arm around my shoulder and told me what a remarkable job I had done keeping the Nicaraguan resistance alive." (A spokesman for Shultz said the Secretary had intended only to compliment North for boosting contra morale...
...ward, but no because it's wrong, because we have spent 5,000 years as a race of rational human beings, trying to drag ourselves out of the primeval slime by searching for truth and moral absolutes. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach. What Moses brought down from Mount Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions...
...oversight is in reality more subtle, say veterans of the process. "The Corporation's knowledge that this group of 30 people is watching over their shoulder will prevent them from doing anything silly," says former President Pusey...
While McFarlane came across as a good soldier, his earnest admissions did not wash with Indiana Democrat Lee Hamilton, chairman of the House panel. "I appreciate your willingness to shoulder great responsibility," Hamilton told the witness. "But I cannot accept that answer . . . You cannot, it seems to me, accept responsibility for mistakes, as admirable as that may be, and thereby absolve the President of responsibility." Outside the hearings, & Democratic Senator George Mitchell of Maine was more colorful. "McFarlane's testimony of the President's personal involvement," he said, "does tend to indicate that the water is lapping at the walls...