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...Trinity board, which had grown impatient with his explicitly erotic work, especially an adaptation of the James Purdy novel Eustace Chisholm and the Works that featured a graphic abortion and an unabashed homosexual sensibility. When the board ousted him, the actors boycotted and led a community protest. The upshot was that Hall "fired" the board, replacing them with backers of his vision...
Executive Committee member Abdelhamid I. Sabra, who also called for Safran's departure, said, "The upshot is something I have to view positively since it means everybody has recognized that Nadav is a liability in the center...
Since taking over from Acting GSAS Dean Peter S. McKinney last month, Moore has begun confronting a host of difficult reforms to the school's financial and enrollment policies. These reforms were among a host of changes recommended in the Strauch Report, the upshot of the school's first major review in more than 15 years...
...intelligence and advisers. Although all are against the Soviets, the four could not express an anti-Communist stance in their communique because rebel forces in both Laos and Afghanistan are supported by Communist China. The likely next step will be the opening of a Democratic International office in Washington. Upshot: a new lobby to urge Congress to support the Nicaraguan contras and other anti-Communist guerrillas...
...format devised as an upshot of this bit of pop-psych market research pits He-Man's Heroic Warriors against the forces of evil every weekday on 166 television stations. In each half-hour segment, He-Man starts out as a mere wimp of a kid named Adam. When he raises his sword and utters the magic incantation, Adam turns into a hero who looks like Prince Valiant with Arnold Schwarzenegger's physique. Since the animated cartoon premiered 15 months ago, it has gained 9 million viewers, most of them boys ages four to seven...