Word: richardson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nations, safeguards against pollution and, perhaps most important, establishment of an international body to govern the mining of seabed mineral resources. Yet some U.N. observers note that the Reaganauts, are deeply suspicious of both the U.N., which they feel is dominated by anti-U.S. elements, and of Elliot Richardson, the liberal Republican who led the first U.S. Law of the Sea delegation and has been a major force in shaping the agreement...
...Richardson, who is still a member of the U.S. delegation, counters that all but 14 of the 130 changes that have been made in the seabed mining provision since mid-1977 are favorable to the U.S. Without the treaty, he contends, a mining company would never be able to acquire the legal right to mine a part of the sea bottom. Says Richardson: "It is really a choice between the best possible regime we could negotiate vs. the legal uncertainties that would exist in the absence of a treaty...
Some of the best showdowns of the meet will occur in the distance 300 freestyle events between Brown's Carol Downey, Princeton's Liz Richardson and Karen Weisel, Yale's Courtney Ellis, and Harvard's Jeanne Floyd and Maureen Gilday...
...macabre parody of the death of some Roman emperor, slain at the entrance of his palace after a debauch, blood dripping down the staircase and all. It's a great scene, but quite detached from the rest of the play. At its end Sutherland unconvincingly and abruptly dies, Richardson struts forward, and the curtain drops...
...selected sentences that, by explaining, defending, or indicting Humbert's obsession, make us ponder its meaning. On stage, nothing tempers the nakedness of the act; and when Albee's Lolita takes off her bathrobe to say, "Come and get it, Daddy," or buries her face in Humbert's groin, Richardson must literally draw a curtain over the scene--a comic gesture that only underscores Albee's inability to find how to stage Lolita without either ponderous moralizing or trivializing farce. As long as society remains uncomfortable with this subject while simultaneously exploiting it--and that, no doubt, will...