Word: conveyances
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...penchant for keeping women in overdecorated Manhattan pads. She is "Bones," a TV producer and longtime protégée who revolts against Max by making careerist demands and carrying on with an off-off-Broadway playwright (Peter Weller). King is too much of a pussycat to convey the hero's toughness, but he delivers Allen's best sallies with crackling speed ("I'll tell you who lives in New Jersey! Cousins live in New Jersey!"). Though MacGraw is no comedian, she is animated and playful for the first time in memory...
...Harvard scholars not necessarily even associated with the HIID--in their work abroad. John Coatsworth, associate professor of history at Chicago who directed the University of Chicago's Center for Latin American Studies, said he "found it necessary to spend a good portion of my time trying to convey to the public in this country and especially in Latin America a sense of the diversity of viewpoints represented on our faculty." He told of one of his students who was denied access to an historical archive. "The director of the archive called him a 'Chicago Boy' and ordered...
...Senator raised his voice to convey his clear concurrence and told the interpreter: "You tell the sheik I'll do all I can. You tell...
...exhibit, for all its slick and professional presentation, can not convey the experience of seeing these works in their subterranean homes. We see four rooms of scaled drawings, meticulous models, and sample fragments. What we get is four subway stations filled with some pretty outlandish ideas...
...Where other allies had nervously shunned sanctions and offered only rhetoric against Iran, Canada had literally come to the rescue. In Detroit, billboards facing Canada suddenly sprouted Canadian maple leaves and appreciative messages like THANK YOU, CANADA. The Canadian embassy switchboard in Washington was overwhelmed by Americans wishing to convey warm sentiments: "Brilliant move." "Courageous feat." "Well done." In Fergus Falls, Minn., Radio Station KBRF got an enthusiastic response to its suggestion that listeners send I LOVE YOU valentine messages to Flora MacDonald, Canada's Secretary of State for External Affairs, who, as her nation's top diplomat...