Word: staying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After his public-school ordeals, he went to Cambridge, where he read history (with an emphasis on Islamic subjects) and developed an interest in acting. After graduating in 1968, he moved to Pakistan, where his parents had relocated. His brief stay in a Muslim state was not happy. His production of Edward Albee's The Zoo Story was censored because the play contains the word pork. Within the year, Rushdie fled back to England...
...liveliness and unpredictability but fears it's already too late. She deftly evokes a woman without a mean or malicious thought who sees everyone she knows as a disappointment. She turns the slender plot -- Shirley's sneaking off to Greece for a holiday and her temptation to stay there -- into genuine introspection. It's easy to see why Collins, who originated the role in London, last month won the Olivier Award for that portrayal. Praise belongs as well to designer Bruno Santini, who makes the kitchen so pleasant and homey that one realizes its constriction only in the second...
Several news organizations have responded to public criticism by adopting - new codes of behavior. WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, for example, forbids its reporters to ask victims' relatives how they feel. When the family of a hit- and-run victim asked television reporters to stay away from the funeral last month, WCCO agreed, even though its competitors did not. Rosemary McManus, assistant editor at Long Island's Newsday in New York, says she never sends a reporter to the home of a victim until she is sure the family is aware of the death, and always instructs her reporters to honor...
Nonetheless, Gesell accepted the accord, Thornburgh got the Supreme Court to vacate the stay he had requested, and everything seemed set for the trial to begin. But hardly to run smoothly: the North defense can be expected to seize every opportunity to delay or perhaps scuttle the trial. And such opportunities will be legion. Lawyer Sullivan ("I'm not a potted plant") has asserted that classified information "pervades" the charges against North. The heart of his defense is that North acted solely on orders from, or at least with the permission of, higher authority -- and that the orders or permission...
...Union staff drew straws for who had to wear the cow suit, because no one would volunteer, she said. The worker said she wished she could stay out of sight for the next week...