Word: tempester
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Timothy's tempest brewed...
JUDD FOR THE DEFENSE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). "Tempest in a Texas Town," voted last year's Best TV Mystery by the Mystery Writers of America. Repeat...
...Topaz was not published in France. As of last week, all that the average Frenchman had read of the affair was some chatty, rather unalarmed accounts in the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaine and a few other papers. Despite the Elysee Palace's determination to live above the tempest, it may not be able to maintain that altitude...
...beginning to wonder. As a result of last year's 45-day strike, Ford production is still catching up, and sales are off 40% for the model-year thus far. General Motors is down 1% from last year in spite of such hot numbers as the Pontiac Tempest. Smaller American Motors is up 5.5% on the strength of its sporty Javelin but, while this is pleasing to American, it amounts to a mere drop in the industry bucket. Overall industry sales are down...
Such chutzpah sometimes gets Mehta into trouble, or the glare of publicity, or both. In Israel, he created a tempest in a tea glass when he tried-unsuccessfully-to get the Israel Philharmonic to do a piece by Richard Wagner, whose music was so enthusiastically embraced by the Nazis that it still disturbs many Jews. In Italy, he flustered musical circles by picketing La Scala with musicians who were protesting a cut in state subsidies for opera. A few weeks ago, he outraged the New York musical establishment by vehemently rejecting any possibility that he might become Leonard Bernstein...