Word: slog
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last season Tony Randall brought his National Actors Theater to Broadway with an overwrought version of The Crucible, an unfunny slog through Feydeau's farce A Little Hotel on the Side and a stupefyingly overacted rendition of The Master Builder. At season's end, executive producer Manny Kladitis said, "We know there were problems, but give us a chance. A company has to walk before...
...London last week for a conference on Yugoslavia, Eagleburger called for tighter sanctions against Serbia, more international monitoring of Serbia's borders and intensified relief efforts. He also pushed for the creation of a permanent negotiating mechanism in Geneva to slog through the messy details standing in the way of a Yugoslav settlement. All these things came to pass, and Eagleburger was pleased by the strong international unity demonstrated. But absent the use of U.S. military force, which he fears could lead to another Vietnam quagmire, none of these steps will guarantee a formula for changing Serb behavior soon...
...models of subtlety, but few are acted and directed with such in-your-face coarseness. Candice Bergen, a two-time Emmy winner (in years when the Golden Girls were apparently snoozing), has anything but a light comic touch. Listening to her labored, overemphatic line readings is like watching someone slog through a swamp in combat boots. Faith Ford, as dippy anchorwoman Corky Sherwood-Forrest (a character married off just to create a funny name!), shrieks her way through scenes as if she were trying to be heard above a hurricane. Grant Shaud, as frenetic executive producer Miles Silverberg, needs sedation...
...getting from here to GATT will require a slog through the farmyards of the world. "The key to the whole GATT equation is agriculture," says a senior U.S. official. "For the Latin Americans and the Asians to make commitments in services and intellectual property, they have to get access to agricultural markets...
...with Ho Xuan Dich, director of the Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Personnel. Dich's deputy, Ngo Hoang, had participated in the February 1990 joint U.S.-Vietnamese visit -- known in MIA jargon as an iteration -- to the crash site, a six-day trip topped off by an eight-hour slog up the side of a mountain. He reviewed the Vietnamese file on the case, the one the Pentagon lists as 0158. The joint team had interviewed witnesses who had seen a jet explode in midair, others who found two dead bodies at the crash site and others who claimed that...