Word: stray
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he plays Dirty Harry Callahan, Clint Eastwood acts with his pulsating blood vessels. Two veins run down his high forehead like stray hairs on a Gorgon. His jugular throbs with moral indignation over sadistic criminals, liberal judges and guys who put ketchup on hot dogs. For Sudden Impact-Dirty Harry IV, Clint has grown a new worry line: an asp of a blood vessel that snakes across his left temple. Heaven knows he needs it. San Francisco is overrun with thrill-juiced punks and Mafia goons. No sweat, though: Harry has more artillery than the Cubans ever dreamed...
...better opportunity for propaganda than that of the silver screen, and not only those in the Soviet Union or China. The best political movies of the last few years--China Syndrome or Missing, to name two--show how hard it is even for talented actors and directors to stray even slightly from the party line. Film demands the most elemental depiction of politics, boiled down to easy dogma, rather than to the essential ambiguity of most causes...
...holdings include such staid institutions as the Australian of Sydney and the Times of London. But the eight big-city tabloids of Press Baron Rupert Murdoch, 52, which cover their turf from Boston to Fleet Street, rarely stray from lurid roots: NUDE PRINCIPAL DEAD IN MOTEL (San Antonio Express); HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR (New York Post). Last week Murdoch took his headline high jinks to the U.S. heartland. He bought the troubled Chicago Sun-Times, the nation's eighth largest urban daily, for $90 million in cash...
...firing at Druze militiamen and their allies. Each morning before 8 a.m. the troops finish breakfast (eggs to order, French toast and, as ever, Spam). The volleyball games and group jogs have been rare since the hostile fire turned intense late in the summer. Between duties, some soldiers kill stray scorpions and centipedes in the three-and four-man bunkers. When he was out and about during a stint as liaison officer to the British peace-keeping troops, First Lieut. Lee Marlow of Nashville found to his surprised pleasure that "people in Beirut seemed friendly. They waved and said hello...
...truce survived its first week with no major wounds, despite bouts of shelling in the southern Chouf and stray sniper fire in Beirut. Much of the credit belonged to the Lebanese Army, which refused to respond to provocations in the capital's southern suburbs. The most encouraging sign came on Thursday, when Beirut International Airport reopened after being shut down for four weeks. As the first incoming plane, a red-and-white Middle East Airlines Boeing 707 from Saudi Arabia, circled over Beirut several times, people in the streets pointed skyward and cheered...