Word: use
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country's current acrimonious mood. During an emotional Cabinet meeting last week, Weizman and Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan fought successfully to prevent Begin from offering his hard-line plan for limited self-rule at the start of the autonomy talks. Instead, the two ministers won Cabinet approval to use the Begin plan only as an informal "guideline" during the negotiations...
...Soviet intentions: It's no secret what the Soviets are doing. They plan to extend their influence in the gulf. They have already gained South Yemen, which is the Soviet base for making trouble elsewhere in this area. Here in Oman we have firsthand experience with how they use people, encourage and aid troublemakers. The Russians wait for opportunity, then they jump. We are prepared to stop troublemakers, but if a Soviet-planned aggression gets too big, we will need support. Sadat will send us military help without hesitation. Saudi Arabia is [also] an obvious power in this area...
...knows we could use it." Other knowledgeable readers agree. "I can't remember when the best writing in the Times was not that of Russ Baker," says U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who himself uses words with polished ease and keeps a large supply of them around the house. "There is just a lucidity and a sanity about him that is so distinctive. He writes clearly because he thinks clearly." Presidential Aspirant Eugene McCarthy once jokingly proposed making Baker U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; McCarthy confirms that the offer is still open. Says Humorist S.J. Perelman...
Writing is hard work for him now: "You go into a dark room ind close the door, and you're alone inside your head." One pulls things out of the mental attic to use in the column, he adds, and the attic is depleted. You don't have time to add much to your store. "How many column ideas are there?" he asks. "There's the plumber, and your teenagers, and your car, and your house. If you're really desperate, you can write about your wife, and then it's time to hang up the typewriter...
Still, it is depressing to watch an expensive, crafty movie that never soars beyond its cold desire to score the big bucks. Unlike Jaws, Alien does not use stylistic cunning to excite the audience; it just shovels on the mayhem. Unlike Star Wars, Alien has no affection for past movies of its genre; it just rips them off. Stripped of its futuristic setting and pretensions, this film is an oldtime B monster picture. Alien might just as well be about a huge scorpion loose in a haunted house, circa 1953. While the murder sequences are executed with all the realism...