Word: stinting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...editorial assistant in the Nation section. The next year she left the magazine for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, where she did her best to parlay a political-science degree earned at the University of $ California, Berkeley, into the skills required to cover baseball and soccer. She began a three-year writing stint at PEOPLE magazine in 1977, where she both interviewed celebrities and braved the disco and drug dens of New York City for articles. In 1980 she became TIME's show-business correspondent in Los Angeles, then worked there for PEOPLE, and has now come home, we feel, to write...
Ronald Bass's clever script never apologizes for Catharine, never explains her. It knows, as Alex does, that "nobody knows why anybody does anything." And Rafelson, in his snazziest stint since Five Easy Pieces (1970), locates meaning in each thrill and frill. He gives Supporting Players Nicol Williamson and James Hong juicy vignettes. He gives Winger a role that taps her smarts, humor and goofy-gorgeous smile. And he gives Russell the movie. In the past she has mainly graced the films of her husband Nicolas Roeg. Here she emerges as a golden girl with looks that kill. Separately, Russell...
...even Salle's most devout fans seem able to say what his pictures are about, for all their literary overtones. They are laden with sexual imagery ) -- Salle's work seems to owe a lot to a brief stint he did as a layout man for the porn magazine Stag in the mid-'70s -- but that imagery comes out as congealed, monotonous sleaze. Salle's nudes are mere signs for bimbos, not erotic presences, and their popularity may be linked to the cynicism of their sexual politics...
After a successful career in government whichincluded a stint with the State Department, AlbertCantril decided to become a public policy analyst.His experiences in government "underscored thedifference for me between being a political personand partisan" and made him skeptical of thegovernmental decision-making process
...work may be admirable, but is a stint of public service the just deserts of crime? Many people would say no, but they may not be the same ones who must contend with the bedlam of American prisons. In recent years, a get- tough trend toward longer sentences and more of them has had a predictable consequence. Even as crime rates generally declined during the first half of the 1980s, inmate numbers tracked wild ballistics of their own, increasing by nearly 60%. The nation's prison population now stands at a record 529,000, a total that grows...