Word: webbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, with the blubbering C. Thomas Howell playing opposite him, it's hard to think of Ryder doing anything but laughing. Drawn into the maniacal web of Ryder's killings, Howell's standard emotional response is a wimpy moan, which gives way with unrealistic suddenness to the steely eyes of a newborn killer. Howell could get away with simpering seriousness in ET, but he's made it into the big time and is supposed to be capable of mature acting. Ryder should have terminated Halsey when he had the chance...
...called mainly for new studies. Saying that welfare created a "spider's web of dependency," Reagan directed that his domestic-policy council, headed by Attorney General Edwin Meese, evaluate all federal welfare programs, with an eye toward restructuring the system. "The success of welfare," the President said, "should be judged by how many of its recipients become independent of welfare...
...twisted 20-ft. section of the plane's fuselage remained intact. The stricken craft left trees burning and strewn like pickup sticks in its wake. The DC-8's debris and the soldiers' personal effects were scattered in all directions. A boot remained upright. A knife hung from a web belt. A stuffed bear lay in the snow. Two tiny dresses meant for a trooper's daughter somehow escaped the flames...
...SOUNDS LIKE a broken record, but maybe if the University approached the community with, an attitude of compromise rather than confrontation its proposed graduate student dormitory wouldn't find itself in this tangled web of controversy. Certainly, Harvard can balance its legitimate housing needs with the desires of the rest of Cambridge...
...stand. Sometimes Harvard groups or individuals feel forced to justify an action with non-political reasoning ("he's unworthy," "it's a moral stand"). Sometimes blatantly political terms are used to justify action. But no one, except possibly Derek Bok, has seriously tried to untangle this massive web of conflicting arguments...