Word: topical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During dinner, McGuane sips nonalcoholic beer and talks about an upcoming cutting-horse competition in Billings. Cutting, a highly stylized ritual in which a horse and rider "work" a cow in much the same way a defensive guard tries to block a basketball, is a dear topic for the McGuanes. They also happen to be formidably good at it. Laurie is Montana's defending cutting- horse champion, Tom was No. 1 the year before, and the two are the leading contenders for the 1989 trophy. "We take turns," Laurie laughs...
Journalists usually go about their jobs by chasing down rumors and interviewing sources. Sometimes, though, reporters learn a lot by gathering experts in one room and firing questions at them. If the mix of guests is right and the topic intriguing enough, the conversation can be as exciting to cover as a revolution or a natural disaster. In fact, revolutions and nature were on the agendas of two TIME-sponsored conferences that we report on in this week's issue...
...meeting this week provided yet another reminder of how intractable the security issues raised by the rape are. At a Committee on College Life (CCL) gathering Monday, the topic was campus security and its inadequacies. Representatives from the Women's Alliance, the student-run escort service SafeStreets, the Undergraduate Council ad hoc committee on campus security and the Harvard University Police Department debated the issue...
...topic of letters to the editor, I cannot resist quoting from Jean Paul Sartre's response to a letter to the editor written by Albert Camus...
...raider calls Farley's debt a "time bomb." While Farley once joked that "we're doing fine, except that the banks expect us to pay them back," he now refuses to discuss his finances or the subject of raiding. Says he: "I'm staying 180 degrees away from that topic...