Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lasana, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Melinda J. McAdams, Peter J. McGullam, Sandra Maupin, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Judy Sandra, Elyse Segelken, Michael Skinner, Terry Stoller, Lamarr Tsufura, Maitena Z. Viani, Jill Ward, Amelia Weiss Graphics Production: Kenneth Collura, Linda Parker, Lois Rubenstein, Simon Tack...
...contrast to the good manners of Cromwell, Rich and Henry VIII is the King's belligerent advisor, Cardinal Wolsey (David Condon), who takes a more direct tack in getting More to sanction the King's divorce. Condon stomps his fist on the table, puts out candles with his bare hands and barks out his lines in Sylvester Stallone fashion. Despite all of this activity, however, Condon's energies are in vain. He convinces neither More nor the audience with his overbaked histrionics. By contrast, Margaret Meserve, who plays the Spanish Catholic spy Signora Chapuys, could have borrowed...
...deal (or not to deal) with the begging of the homeless could be to take the tack recommended by New York Mayor Ed Koch: not to give out on streets but give tax-deductible donations to organized charities instead. It's a clean, sanitary way to wash your hands of the issue. But how are you going to tell a small child who is begging on the streets to survive that you won't give her money because you sent the United Way a check last week...
Experimenting with every tack in life, Trotman has seemed to succeed in most of her endeavors. Although she admits that she is "a spaz in basketball," she displays the inherent athletic ability and mental endurance so intrinsic in Olympians. She says she loves all sports and that they'll always be an important part of her life, but hockey and sailing are her favorites...
...week's Paris conference, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz met with his West German counterpart, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and offered to provide a panel of West German officials with a full intelligence briefing in Washington. Perhaps seizing on that proposal as a diplomatic way to take a new tack, Genscher agreed not only to send such a delegation but also to tighten West Germany's notoriously loose regulations governing the export of potentially dangerous products, including chemicals. Two days later Bonn announced plans to increase the number of customer nations whose purchases are monitored and to impose more stringent...