Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nations will be less susceptible to U.S. pressure. Haig foresees a gradual drift by Egypt toward rapprochement with the Arab world, and he expects Israel to become more nervous about its own security and thus less willing to negotiate. He also fears that if the talks do not succeed, they will eventually be superseded by something else-another Saudi Arabian peace plan, a Western European initiative, or even a Soviet proposal-that would be less to Washington's liking...
...leotard. Would he land in a bed of rose petals thrown by critics enraptured by his new film One from the Heart? Would his feud with Paramount Pictures, which had rescued his Zoetrope Studios from financial disaster a year ago, bring down ruin on his head? Or would he succeed in his cheeky gamble of personally hiring Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall for the first public showing of One from the Heart, without informing Paramount, which was supposed to distribute the film? Would Coppola have to hock...
...understands that on the one hand, self-interest can disguise itself as noble loyalty to a leader or an ideology, and that on the other, decent, hard-working folk will settle for compromise rather than risk a costly defeat at the hands of a political opponent. To succeed in Washington requires tremendous ambition; small tastes of power must compensate for long hours, high tension and modest pay. The winners, therefore, are people whose ultimate allegience is to themselves...
...making available 200 spaces at the Business School parking lot for public use and have promised to review their their portfolio of land holdings in the Square to find additional parking. But so far the University has come up empty in its search, and is not likely to soon succeed in replacing the 200 spaces, Harvard spokesmen...
Trow's second essay does succeed in getting the reader to shake his head in bewilderment. Yes, it is embarrassing if the height of the social season occurs when Bianca Jagger rides through a Studio 54 party on a white horse led a naked man and woman. And it is ludicrous when geriatric fashion priestess Diana Vreeland comments, "The thing about Bianca is the patrician quality." Trow puts together a good piece of debunking journalism. One only wishes he had not confined it in the thinking of his first essay, and let the sillinessof his subjects speak more for itself...