Word: spate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only autumn, and with the perennial spate of "serious" autumnal films comes the customary barrage of gushing reviews and banner-size ad copy. "Oscar quality." "A shoo-in for Best Picture." "Academy Award material." And Rex Reed can't be blamed for all of these, though he has managed to skriek more than his fair share of superlatives...
...outgoing president's insinuations prompted the assembly to form the ad hoc committee, composed of students, to investigate the election. Late last month, the committee its report, which cited a spate of constitutional violations, stated that Jacobsen--who was chairman of the election committee--was not an officially enrolled student, and called for new elections...
Many of those who take the strongest exception to Hite's often harsh tone are men. Her report and the spate of good-women, bad-men advice books indicate that womenare adopting a "new sexism," according to California Educator Warren Farrell, author of last year's Why Men Are the Way They Are and one of the first male board members of the National Organization for Women. Charges Melvyn Kinder, a Los Angeles psychologist and author: "If there is a growing lack of communication between the sexes, it is precisely because of books like Hite...
Farfetched? Not when you consider that 1987 has become the year of the Great Debate Spate. The seven Democratic contenders have already traded mild jabs on PBS and C-Span. Two more Democratic events are scheduled for September. On the Republican side, Moderator William Buckley will toss out the first bon mot on Oct. 28, when all six G.O.P. contenders, including an initially reluctant Vice President George Bush, appear on Firing Line...
...spate of investigations and prosecutions ensued; some are still not finished. Last year an Army court convicted Duncan of financial improprieties and security violations; he is now serving a seven-year sentence in the military prison in Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Longhofer was court-martialed on charges of disobeying an order not to involve himself with his old special operations group and of not conducting a thorough investigation of Duncan. A dozen other officers were investigated for alleged irregularities. Several resigned; although the Army found no basis for prosecuting them, they feared that their careers were effectively ended...