Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...military medical facility in Europe. While it is prepared for anything from hangnails to heart surgery, the hospital expects to be confronted soon with an unusually delicate task: receiving and caring for the 52 American hostages during their first critical days of freedom. "Officially, we don't even know they're coming here," says a senior member of the hospital staff. "Unofficially, we've been ready to process and treat these people since last November...
...risky. Muse thereupon quit. But in the past two years he has made plans to raise $32 million for MuseAir, of which he will be chairman. Says he defiantly: "This time I'm not going to get caught between a bunch of knuckleheads who don't know their asses from first base...
They should not look all that innocent. The media are pervasive. Americans know what they know about candidates from the press. And journalists are conspicuous-whether it is the pontificating anchorman or the pesky reporter. The modest reply, more true than not true, is that the press has about as much control over the campaign as Howard Cosell does over a football game...
...court to City College, Equipped with a business degree and a modicum of ambition, he sets out for "the most dazzling job in the world"-as an advertising man. Madison Avenue finds him the least dazzling candidate in New York, so Steve heads toward Los Angeles, where hey know how to do bittersweet by the numbers: No. 1, the rise to the summit via award-winning ads. No. 2, the beautiful wife whose wealthy parents are so assimilated they mispronounce the Yiddishisms sprinkled through their dialogue. No. 3, the breakup of family and business. No. 4, the search for roots...
...strengths and weaknesses of huge reference works like the New Grove will take years to judge. But Macmillan is already planning Grove 7. Though it may be too early to shout encore! it is reassuring to know that Sadie and his band will play...