Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forty assorted trucks and plows from the Cambridge Department of Public Works assembled at 4 a.m. yesterday to clear the night's sudden snowfall. But despite the season's two early snows, city officials said enough of the removal budget remains to clean up any more white stuff that may appear...
...course, agreeing is not all that hard for the Washington press corps, to the extent that its members run in a pack, share common attitudes and read each other's stuff. But consider the criticism this time...
...stuff but overrated, says Anita Harris, the geologist who guides McPhee through gaps, folds and sediment from Brooklyn to the dunes of northern Indiana. Harris reads old rock, both high and low, and she is not convinced that plate tectonics adequately explains a great deal of "suspect terrain." The whys and wheres of her disclaimers may not rivet the attention of readers whose geology begins on the front lawn and ends at the beach. But Harris' rigors of body and mind cannot fail to impress. She moves robustly over the landscape lugging her hammers and rock samples. She computes...
...took juicier stuff than that to convict four city officials in 1982 on a variety of charges involving tax evasion, bribery and extortion in connection with their city positions--convictions which gave momentum to an investigation of the White machine by U.S. Attorney William F. Weld '66 Quite simply, it was the blatant extortion of money from city employees, forcing them to contribute to the Kevin White Committee (the mayor's campaign fund) if they wanted to keep their jobs, which caused the scandal. The mayor can argue publicly that it's in their best interests to support the incumbent...
...film Frances, a studio mogul leans toward Jessica Lange, 33, playing the troubled actress Frances Farmer, and proffers a word of advice: "You're an actress, and your job is to act, tootsie." The studio boss knew his stuff. In Tootsie, Lange floored almost everyone with her smoky vulnerability. And so, with two of the most highly praised performances of the past year, she is an odds-on favorite to garner two Academy Award nominations next month, the first double designate in four decades. Back on the arm of her longtime beau Mikhail Baryshnikov, 34, Lange finds that...