Word: topic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Onstage, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Christopher Hampton's adaptation of the Choderlos de Laclos novel, was elegant and epicene. Les Lay caught the novel's central conceit -- that sex is a wicked game, the rankest form of show business -- in a witty talkathon on Topic A. The movie goes one crucial step further, allowing the characters to shrug off their finery and display some redeeming prurient interest. The actresses are all wanly handsome: ornaments of an era close to exhaustion. Pfeiffer and Thurman make for luscious bookends in the library of lust. Close sits back and plays the puppeteer...
...effect that could eventually produce disastrous climate changes. But until recently, the prophets of global warming garnered about as much attention as the religious zealots who insist that Armageddon is near. When Colorado Senator Timothy Wirth held congressional hearings on the greenhouse effect in the fall of 1987, the topic generated no heat at all. "We had a very, very distinguished panel," Wirth recalled at the TIME Environment Conference, "and who was in the cavernous hearing room? Six or seven people, and two or three of them were lost tourists...
...concerned, the first topic in an extended dialogue will be terrorism. The U.S. wants to serve notice on Arafat that it remains highly skeptical of his renunciation of the tactics that have subjected Israelis and others to decades of hijacking, bombing and murder. Washington will hold Arafat personally responsible for controlling his organization, and if he fails the U.S. will not hesitate, as President Reagan said, "to break off communications." The U.S. also expects Arafat to condemn and dissociate himself from violent acts by renegades and to help bring any terrorists to heel...
...said that the University would be receptive to negotiations about campus security but added that such a topic is "not common...
...dinner with members of Harvard's Afro-Am Department following his talk, Gates and DuBois Professor of History and Afro-American Studies Nathin I. Huggins engaged in a long discussion on precisely this topic. Professors who atteneded the dinner said the night represented a kind of passing of the torch in Black studies from the older historian to the younger literary critic...