Word: slough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Eligius Hospital in Boston-known, not always with affection, as St. Elsewhere-is located near Cheers, but it is a safe bet that its local police force could be the Hill Street Blues. NBC's Hill Street Blues, fractured and jazzy, seems to be stuck in a slough of self-admiration at the moment, but it set a style for television drama that St. Elsewhere is emulating with considerable success. The new show is populated by a floating rep company of actors, including William Daniels and the extraordinary Ed Flanders, that may be the best...
...gently prodded the U.S. to pay more heed to the demands poor countries for a more equitable of the world's resources. Mitterrand, in his speech opening the summit, presented a vision of heavy investment in high technology lifting both industrial and undeveloped countries out of the economic slough toward higher standards of living. Said Mitterrand expansively: "Communications technologies will usher in a new form of civilization...
...Nixon, a self-certified geopolitician--wonder where he got that from?--has set himself too lofty a task to dwell on past squabbles. He is warning us against ourselves, hoping against hope that we will slough off our guilt, indecision and blithe good nature and gear ourselves for the ultimate showdown at the OK Corral. After all, we are told...
...historical. But through all my years of teaching I have had the impression that the knowledge thus acquired touches neither the hearts nor the minds of students: the better ones pick it up as a sort of intellectual baggage, as they might a professional or athletic skill; the others slough it off the instant the relevant final examination is over...