Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...with a beseeching hand. Another rolled his wheelchair up against the commuters' feet and tugged at their sleeves. A third stretched across a counter in a weirdly feline gesture, trying to intercept the change coming back to Mike Farrell, 50, of Ringwood, N.J. "No!" howled Farrell, loud enough to make heads turn. "It's the only way you can get through to them," he explained...
...lately worked in a program to train homeless people in construction, had all the credentials of an earnest victim. Civil rights leader Roy Innis rallied to Sumter's defense, as did editorialists from the city's newspapers. "How many subway riders, wary of the deranged homeless who make the subterranean world so menacing, have not fantasized responding to assault with violence?" wrote social commentator Myron Magnet in the New York Times. Public wrath at the homeless was so palpable that the Rev. George Kuhn felt the need to admonish restraint at the funeral of Sumter's still unidentified victim. "Homeless...
Eventually AIDS affected so many people, including journalists, that the story became unavoidable. Even then, a certain amount of distortion has remained: much recent coverage gives the impression that the disease is rampant among children (who actually make up only 2% of those afflicted), that it has become a "minority" disease (white gay males remain the largest single affected group), or that it is "on the wane" (a highly dubious proposition...
...every musical is gutsy enough to make its big ballad the first words an audience hears, or to introduce both its other showstopper tunes within the next 20 or so minutes. But then few composers have the confidence in the spectator -- or maybe it's just the chutzpah -- to recycle the same few melodies over and over, in endless allusive variations, for nearly three hours...
...that some air pollution was caused by trees, Mitchell has tried to get a clean-air bill into law. After Bush claimed during his election campaign that he was a devoted environmentalist, Mitchell devised a strategy to hold the President to his rhetoric. First he waited for Bush to make his own proposals on pollution controls last July. Then he rammed a much tougher version through the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. When the White House predictably denounced the committee version as too expensive, Mitchell and Administration experts went behind closed doors for some hard bargaining...