Word: embarrassing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Panama's decision to call a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in Panama City was primarily intended to embarrass the U.S. for maintaining control of the Panama Canal-and it succeeded. On opening day, the delegates arriving at Panama's Legislative Palace faced a three-story billboard that declared in the five official U.N. languages: "You may rest assured that in our negotiations with the U.S. you will always find us standing on our feet and never on our knees. Never! Torrijos...
...exceptions: Sadie Stern's long first-person story called "The Saddest Young Woman" is stylistically promising if immature. Cynthia MacDonald's "Another Attempt at the Trick" is a deft and chatty poem symbolizing art as a fantastic tight-rope walk. The visuals are of a quality that tends to embarrass the verbals: there is an excellent photo essay on Hell's Angels by Barbara Boatner, a portfolio of portraits of women, several skillful sketches and a witty, colloquial cover by Marisol...
...usually a betting man, largely because I seem to have an innate ability to pick a team to win and have them finish fourth, or predict another to lose and watch them embarrass me by winning easily. When the swimming team faced Dartmouth earlier this winter I put my money (actually it was a six-pack of Tuborg) on the Big Green, figuring that the Indians (oops, can't call them that anymore) were too strong for Don Gambril's team. Harvard, however, won decisively and I lost the brew...
With very little hesitation the presidential Inaugural Committee removed it from the program, feeling that the text, Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address, might embarrass President Nixon by its references to war. Soon three other orchestras offered to perform the work, a record company put out feelers about recording it, and inquiries began arriving in the mail at Persichetti's publishers-in all, it aroused more interest than almost any contemporary composer can hope for with a new piece...
...power cliques that virtually run the bureau; the perpetuation of Hoover's notorious "blacklist" of people to be shunned, socially and otherwise, by FBI agents; the maintenance of so-called penal colonies, field offices to which agents in disfavor are banished; and leaking FBI in formation to embarrass officials Gray considers to be his enemies...