Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think of Liz and Dick as you watch Albee's famous drama, in which two couples turn sex into arguments, arguments into sex, and both into a form of high...
Healy and other city officials argued that if Cambridge made the institutional rate too high, universities would find ways to conserve water. This in turn would reduce the amount of water the city sold but would not lower operating expenses, they said...
...Quayle. A seasoned and quick-witted political street fighter, he is respected as crafty, tough and stubborn. An M.I.T.-trained engineer and nuclear-power enthusiast who is completing his third term as Governor, he holds a deep conservatism that is both economic and social. Sununu helped turn around Bush's flagging campaign during the New Hampshire primary, when he urged the Vice President to emphasize his "no new taxes" pledge. The Governor then served as the campaign's top Dukakis basher, shadowing his Massachusetts counterpart and ridiculing him. Some Bush aides are concerned that the combative Sununu may run roughshod...
...skit needs is a likable star and some lunatic vamping. Because of the Dickens frame, this formula works at feature length, even if Richard Donner's close-up and impersonal direction clangs like the chains on Marley's ghost. And because, 4 1/2 years after his last star turn in a movie comedy (Ghostbusters), Murray remains a roguish delight to watch. As sham friendly as the guy who cheated off you in high school, as ersatz hip as a Vegas lounge singer, Murray lets the movie hang agreeably loose. Nobody tried for a masterpiece here; most people should have...
...heyday of yellow journalism at the turn of the century, powerful publishers such as William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer did not hesitate to draft their newspapers into the service of a pet cause. Remember the Maine? But as papers strove for more credibility with readers and advertisers, publishers were banished from the newsroom, establishing a firm division that was often compared to the constitutional separation of church and state. These days, however, with economic and cultural changes wrenching the newspaper industry, many journalists are concerned that the once sacred boundary between business and editorial departments has begun to blur...