Word: tend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among those who tend to oppose Jackson's candidacy are many black elected officials who got where they are by building coalitions with white moderates, Mayor Andrew Young, a longtime associate of Jackson's from the days when they worked together on King's staff, is one. "A Jackson candidacy creates a problem for the 'real' politician with a Black base who needs white support," he contends. Young, who was leaning toward endorsing Mondale, has decided to work with Jackson for now in hopes of channeling the PUSH president's energy into other directions: "I may be joining up with...
...brain, you know"). Nevertheless, it is getting him good movie-acting work. He starred in Brimstone and Treacle and will appear as the head heavy in the upcoming Dino De Laurentiis/David Lynch film of Frank Herbert's sci-fi behemoth Dune. Stage presence and movie appearances tend to reinforce each other, producing a charisma that may be inadvertent but is certainly undeniable. Copeland puts it simply, "His face is our face...
...western music: Crystal Gayle, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson. Author Andre Dubus, 47, makes this C & W name dropping seem more than a bid for easy topicality. He writes about people whose lives evoke sad songs and wailing pedal steel guitars. They work at checkout counters, wait on tables, tend bar or fry hamburgers at fast-food outlets. All are somehow stranded, searching for a pattern to their existence beyond the wet circles left behind by their beer cans or cocktail glasses...
...Airlines counter at Paris' Orly Airport, leaving 55 wounded and seven dead. During the past decade, 36 Turkish envoys have been assassinated abroad, including four in the U.S. In Turkey the Armenians were murdering several Turks each day until the 1980 imposition of martial law. The guerrilla groups tend to be highly professional: the best-known of them, the Marxist Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA), created in 1975, was trained in the Beirut camps of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The P.L.O.'s pullout from Lebanon last summer may have forced ASALA to move...
...which the U.S. has hinted at a milder, more accommodating approach seem to have convinced him that he had won and that he could go his own way with impunity. And Castro's way, if he gets it in the long run, raises another question that the liberals tend to duck: What happens if the momentum of change in Latin America confronts the U.S. with a Mexico that has acquired a leadership, political system, foreign policy and degree of militarization roughly along the lines of what Castro has achieved in Cuba and what the Sandinistas have in mind...