Word: surely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...headed the criminal division, told Reagan what he had earlier told Meese: that he would indict the Attorney General if he were running the investigation. Meese's friend E. Robert Wallach had profited from his relationship with the Attorney General, Weld said, and it appeared that Wallach had made sure that Meese was rewarded for going along with his schemes...
...Macbeth as fraught with difficulties. Its plot cannot work unless skeptical modern audiences will believe in witches and the supernatural. The central couple kill in unforeshadowed haste and repent in wearisome leisure. As a tyrant, Macbeth seems a paranoiac cross between Herod, slaughtering a legion of innocents to be sure he got the right one, and the pathetic people who kill entire families on purported instruction from God. Thus it is scant surprise that the Macbeth that opened on Broadway last week used up three directors, two sets and five Macduffs during a six-city tryout tour...
College administrators are not entirely sure that all the courting and hustle are worth the considerable time and expense (Bowdoin's weekend wooing of 34 minority students cost $19,800). Still, none are willing to cut back unless their competitors do. And even when the sales pitch is persuasive, educators wonder if the customer has been well served. "I get concerned that all the marketing is taking the place of good counseling and exploiting people who haven't reached a real maturity level," says Frank Burtnett, executive director of the National Association of College Admission Counselors in Alexandria...
...movie fare offers Three Men and a Baby, Baby Boom and She's Having a Baby. Even television commercials are using giggling, gurgling newborns to shill for grownup products such as carpets, insurance and automobile tires. Yet despite the highly visible new crop of infants, not all Americans are sure they want to help fuel the baby mania. Observes UCLA Psychologist Jacqueline Goodchilds: "Many people are questioning the assumption that fulfillment for a woman is having children...
...last defeated by cancer, but she has a good death: "Gradually, the room is filled with light . . . and she is filled with elation." That puts her ahead of the dying Goethe, who, in his last words, had to ask for more light. Up in heaven, one can be sure, Claudia will use it against...