Word: tirelessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rites of summer! Baseball and sunbathing. Picnics by the old swimming hole. Heat prostration and killer mosquitoes. Steven Spielberg movies. For the fifth consecutive summer, this tireless auteur-mogul has placed his name on a fantasy adventure or two designed to turn sentient adults into wonder-lusting children. Spielberg directed neither of the inevitable hits before us: he wrote the story and served as an executive producer of The Goonies; he shepherded Back to the Future toward production, then pretty much left the film's creators on their merry own. But his candy-smirched fingerprints are evident on both projects...
Just two months ago, Ronald Reagan won a major round in his tireless fight for the MX missile when he persuaded Congress to release $1.5 billion to step up production of the controversial weapon. But in the long-running MX battle, victory can be fleeting. Last week the Senate forced the Administration to limit deployment of the MX to 50 missiles, half the number the White House wanted. The Defense Department, which had hoped to produce 48 more missiles in fiscal 1986, agreed to 21 and ultimately settled for twelve. Said Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of the Administration...
DIED. John Martin, 91, dean of U.S. dance critics and tireless champion of the modern dance movement; in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. For 35 years at the New York Times, he was American dance's best friend and one of its harshest critics, presciently molding both an audience and a direction for pioneers of choreography like Martha Graham. Martin looked beyond the longestablished patterns of steps and positions, preaching that the elements of dance were an end in themselves. "The modern dance is not a system," he famously proclaimed, "it is a point of view...
High over Cudjoe Key, Fla., Fat Albert sways lazily in the breeze, but he is in fact a tireless worker. This 200,000-cu.-ft. helium balloon is one of three deployed in Florida and the Bahamas that are on the lookout for drug smugglers and helping with other intelligence-gathe ring activities...
...Roscoe Hersey, as the book's appended notes make clear, but a composite of at least half a dozen Protestant evangelists. As such, he can be a charismatic teacher who scoots around northern China on a motorcycle with a magic show of scientific experiments, a dogged organizer and tireless fund raiser, a man of radiant energy and corrosive doubts. This is the sort of character who might be considered larger than life, if his life had not been lived on a stage that dwarfed his best efforts and noblest beliefs. China, as Hersey portrays it, is the sleeping giant about...