Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Batman and Robin," George says. "The Maslands are the Wonder Kids...
Those who are confident that Amsterdam has the skills to run the Post wonder how she will fare in a news organization where many consider journalistic ethics to be an oxymoron. Last year Amsterdam abruptly resigned from Manhattan,inc., claiming that Owner and Publisher D. Herbert Lipson was interfering too much in editorial matters. Before signing a three-year contract at a reported salary of $200,000 at the Post, however, Amsterdam says she received assurances that she will be given a free hand to edit a paper that is "accurate, responsible, well-reported and ethical." The liberal- leaning editor...
...tired this time. The old legerdemain may save a kingdom, but it can't save this movie and, maybe, the fantasy genre. The man who soared on the zeitgeist can sink when it changes. George Lucas has worked his magic before and surely will again. But for now, the wonder wand is broken...
...semiautomatic hand-gun purchased for $40 in Dallas commands $150 on the street in New York City. With such profits at stake, it is no wonder that Texas, already a major corridor for narcotics from Central America, is turning into a principal source of guns for drug gangs around the U.S. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms figures that Texas trails only Florida as a black-market weapons supplier. Lax firearms laws require no waiting period or investigation of a buyer; gun smugglers send ordinary-looking shoppers, often women, from gun shop to gun shop, acquiring a weapon...
...Little wonder that the Soviet press, which has been allowed to report politically sensitive news with increasing candor, was slow to discover the Polish unrest and even then used the pre-glasnost device of pinning it on "Western anti-Polish centers." For its part, the Reagan Administration deplored the Warsaw government's use of violence. White House Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said that the unrest in Poland could be a "point for discussion" at the upcoming Moscow summit but that he did not expect it to cause "significant damage...