Word: formative
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plan, the Saturday Night Massacre, the plumbers' dirty tricks, the Nixon pardon. Unfortunately, Writer Stanley R. Greenberg (Pueblo) retells the story without regard for the niceties of strong character development or well-paced storytelling. In the entire series his only theatrical flourish is the use of a flashback format in the first half. Besides being a TV cliché (especially in nonfiction dramas), the device is counterproductive. Whenever Dean reaches a pause in his reminiscences, the show stops dead the hero and his lawyer (Ed Flanders) can rehash the obvious moral lessons of what has just happened...
Since French Publisher Daniel Filipacchi revived Look magazine in February, seven years after it folded, the glossy, large-format biweekly has been a nice place to visit, but not many journalists managed to live there. Fifteen editorial employees were fired or forced out, including Managing Editor John Durniak; Executive Editor Marianne Partridge resigned after five issues. For a time, new sackings seemed to come at the end of every week, a ritual that became known around the magazine's Manhattan offices as "Black Friday...
Harvard officials said they did not know how long each tenant lived in the building and thought the notice was legal. On January 16 the University served a second notice in the language and format required by the Rent Control board, listing, as did the first, three grounds for eviction-- misrepresentation of tenancy, damage to property and the desire of the University to convert the building into a four-to-five family apartment unit...
...moral equivalent of war" speech he made two years ago this month. But all that most Americans now remember of that occasion is that he called the nation to the energy barricades, then shrank from leading the fight. This time aides were urging him to choose a more subdued format. No matter where he speaks, Carter's audience will include not just the American people but the OPEC cartel. Until he presents an energy plan that sharply and permanently reduces the nation's dependence on foreign oil, OPEC will just grow richer and richer...
...Bypassing the committee structure of the Assembly in any way disturbs the free flow of research and ideas that is crucial to the development of workable, well-drafted proposals. It is only through a lengthy exchange of divergent opinions in a committee format that all ramifications and issues raised by a proposal are confronted...