Word: bombardment
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...suite. A pregnant employee is advised to exercise restraint in publicly describing her physical condition. Baldrige approvingly quotes a woman who proclaims that "a daily report on varicose veins is enough to put women back at least 3,000 years." At the same time, men are counseled not to bombard a pregnant colleague with questions like "Are you going to stop working?" and "If you're coming back, when will you?" On sexual harassment, Baldrige offers women unsurprising but sane advice. If a man makes an unwanted move, she writes, "explain that he is demonstrating a complete lack of professional...
...crew he is accustomed to and some of the same actors. "When you work with the same people, a shorthand develops," he says. "And it's easier for me to criticize people I know than a stranger who feels insecure. I don't have many friends, but I bombard the ones I have with all my ideas...
...invasion sparked a tempest within the Israel Defense Forces, reflecting both the lack of national consensus about the operation and the controversial decision to bombard West Beirut. Most Israelis supported the initial move to clean the P.L.O. out of southern Lebanon, but opinion shifted when Israeli forces pushed north to encircle Beirut. The war also fell short of achieving its larger goals. Lebanon's Christians failed to win control over the country, as Israel had hoped. After suffering a stinging military defeat, Syria has emerged stronger than ever...
...youth, the Red Guards, then the careerists and thugs, responded to Mao's call ("Bombard the Headquarters") to join in the crusade against the hidden enemies. And as they searched for those enemies, they broke into factions and began killing each other...
...sets, including a fancy art deco U.S.O. dance hall, all look real, and a few of the facts are real. A lone Japanese sub marine did bombard the California coast not long after Pearl Harbor, and a kind of panic resulted. There were also zoot-suit riots in Los Angeles, but they did not occur until later on, and it was not Stilwell who put them down (though he commanded the Third Corps at Monterey in the early days of the war). Spielberg has simply brought everything together in one mad moment. Says he: "It's about a week...