Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Crimson has been hardpressed to put back-to-back inspired performances together this season, and intensity was once again a focal point of Saturday's match...
...actual tally began, it appeared that the ayes were winning. But many Democrats delayed casting their votes, watching the electronic scoreboard. They soon realized that Republicans were defecting en masse. All eight G.O.P. Congressmen seeking elevation to the Senate this November voted no. At that point, scores of undecided Democrats rushed into the negative column. Of the 25 Democratic incumbents facing stiff challenges this year, none supported the deal. Eight of the 13 chairmen of the appropriations subcommittees, who usually have great power in shaping the details of spending plans, deserted the Democratic leadership. The final tally, shortly after...
...even in baseball, the policy of equal access can and does work. Often when I was in locker rooms in the '70s, players would politely ask me to return in five minutes, after they had dressed. The point is, there are sensible ways to make this work for everybody, without making it impossible for women to report sports or humiliating those who choose to do so. Women in locker rooms should not be the issue in 1990. Rather, the finger ought to be pointed at the infantile and repugnant behavior of some ballplayers and their inability to adjust to changing...
...pieces. But Doug Vaughan's story about rooting through the confiscated files of former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega breaks little news beyond some eye-popping Visa-card bills. Maura Sheehy's portrait of Fox TV as the "ninja" fourth network is hyped with adrenal adjectives and metaphors to the point of incoherence. Details shows glints of awareness of an America beyond white male plutocrats. But when it is not trendy, it is often aggressively vulgar...
...stories were based on what the narrator, H. Norman Schwarzkopf, called "authentic case histories." He was the real thing himself -- a West Point grad who had been superintendent of the New Jersey state police and an investigator in the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby...