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...stares at the floor, fiddles with his glasses, paces around the room, trots out some old story to change the subject. Those who need to talk to him about it check his mood closely. If he's testy, you postpone the discussion -- and since there's no surer way to make him testy than to mention abortion, most often those discussions never take place...
...deflected Mitterrand from his nouveau Gaullism, a policy of working with and through Germany to secure a decisive say over the Continent's future. In the E.C.'s halls of power France remains paramount, and relations with Washington, prickly at the best of times, are on a surer footing...
...upper left) It was a banner year for Harvard sports, with 10 Ivy League titles to its credit. But one of those crowns once again did not come in men's basketball, which is still chasing its elusive first title. Here, RON MITCHEll slams home one of the surer two points of the year in an early-season loss to Dartmouth at Briggs Cage. The year was just as disappointing for DEREK MILLS and the men's soccer team, which stumbled through a 4-3 Ivy season. The women's soccer team, on the other hand, come within four overtime...
...tampering with what had been a winning formula. When contemplating new ideas, they constantly wondered aloud, "What would Walt have done?" During the 1970s, Disney's top executives allowed the creative side of the company to wither while they focused their attention on real estate development, which seemed a surer bet. This outraged the largest individual stockholder, the late Roy Disney's son, also named Roy, who owned 3% of the company. "I remember thinking that if that pattern went on much longer, the company would become a museum in honor of Walt," says Roy, now 58. "Movies were...
...judge from Brecht's track record, putting spin on a familiar story was one of the surer ways of accomplishing this. Even when Brecht was ripping off no one in particular, he felt the need to cloak his work with the patina of plagiarism. According to Brecht's doctrine of the epic play, setting works in an unfamiliar and unsympathetic context allows the audience to absorb the message of the works rather than getting absorbed in the character and stories. If Andrei Serban's seminew production of Brecht's The Good Woman of Setzuan shows anything, it's that...