Word: turning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since its establishment in the early 1970s. Its campaigning alone may prove insufficient to prevent the Supreme Court from removing women's right to privacy. Now that we are so close--too close--to actually losing that right, the silent majority must raise its voice in protest to this turn of events...
...just a bizarre mixture of cultures. There are evidently cultures where it is considered basically good etiquette to keep your left-turn signal on at all times. Then there are people who feel it's important to buy the largest possible car, the kind you can land aircraft on top of with no problem, and they drive them incredibly slowly. At the same time, there are people who cannot imagine going less than 70 m.p.h., including in their driveways. Then the politics here is amazing. I mean, we have rallies here for the right to sacrifice chickens...
...Gorky Park (1981), Martin Cruz Smith showed a good way to turn one among the thousands of detective novels published annually into a runaway best seller. The three crucial steps: 1) construct a plot with plenty of corpses and exfoliating complexities; 2) provide a beleaguered and therefore sympathetic hero, one whose problem involves not only solving a crime but avoiding extermination by a small army of people who do not wish the truth to be known; 3) set the action in a place that is inaccessible and romantically forbidding -- in the case of Gorky Park, Moscow and environs...
...move was calculated to turn up the heat on Time, which had rejected Paramount's initial bid two weeks ago and instead pressed ahead with its planned merger with Warner Communications. To that end, Time and Warner on June 16 converted their original debt-free stock swap into a leveraged takeover bid in which Time would buy Warner for a total of up to $14 billion in cash and securities, a step that, among other things, eliminated the need for the deal to be approved by Time stockholders...
...excruciating saga of Pete Rose and gambling seemed to be coming to a shuddering finish last week. A common-pleas judge in Cincinnati was pondering whether to issue a temporary restraining order -- and perhaps turn the Rose investigation over to the courts -- or leave Rose to face Baseball Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti and the music early this week. After four months of husky whispers, the worst charges imagined were spoken aloud at last. Giamatti's special investigator, John Dowd, asserted in court that he has found nine witnesses and enough corroborating evidence to prove that Rose committed baseball's capital...