Word: fiasco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...production seems to squelch almost everyone connected with it. Only René Auberjonois as a faggy designer manages to filch an occasional moment of amusing exuberance. A number he does called Fiasco is the closest thing Coco has to a show-jogger-and is all too apt as a one-word critique...
...fact that the Menominee fiasco was brought about with the approval of liberal, high-minded and progressive men, among them Senator Frank Church of Idaho, is indicative of a historic conflict between the highest white American ideals and the requirements for Indian cultural survival. For nearly a century, the American dream has been a composite society in which arriving immigrants, eager to be assimilated, dropped their old folkways in favor of the means provided by their adopted countrymen. Until just lately, American rhetoric glorified the melting pot-and assumed that it was working. Then blacks, who could not really...
Unfortunately, signs of the same legislative befuddlements have appeared in Faculty meetings, where the effects last longer and are potentially more disastrous. The strain of crisis-meetings could explain the fiasco of last April's Afro-American Studies resolutions...
Last week Hickel announced a long-term financing plan to help municipalities control water pollution by building up-to-date sewage plants. He has plunged into the Santa Barbara oil-leak fiasco and ruled that offshore drillers must bear unlimited liability for causing pollution and harming marine life-a big surprise from an alleged pawn of the oil companies. A year ago, Hickel was spurring exploitation of Alaska's oil-rich North Slope. Now he calls for forced-draft studies on how to "protect the fragile Arctic environment from the processes of exploitation...
Technically, the race was a fiasco; among other things, Veeck allowed 14 starters-at least two too many for comfort on the narrow track. Still, he insists that the event was remarkably successful as a trial run. "After all," he says, "we're showing people that we're trying to improve the quality of the sport in this area." Quality, in fact, is the keynote of Veeck's latest pitch. "You shoot off your fireworks and pull your stunts," he says, "but all that is frosting on the cake. Great racing is the thing...