Word: specialize
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...SPECIAL PROJECTS EDITOR: Donald Morrison EDITOR AT LARGE: Strobe Talbott...
...Wilde has developed a deep interest in religion and has garnered a museum-quality collection of Buddhas and crucifixes. Wilde, says assistant managing editor Richard Duncan, is a "very spiritual man." Duncan recalls that when the correspondent left for an assignment in Africa some years ago, he expressed his special feelings for the continent. "What I love about Africa," Wilde said, "is that God is in the air over there...
Although he took acting classes when starting out, Freeman follows no special school of acting. "I read Stanislavsky recently," he says, referring to the high guru of acting technique, "but that business of peeling away layers of skin was too murky and deep for me. I haven't found that I've had to do that in any intellectual sense. What I do, I do intuitively. It just comes easy...
...trained agents, and no one seemed to know where most of them were. The provisional government issued an ultimatum: "If they surrender voluntarily with their weapons, they will be tried and the death penalty will not be applied." If they did not, they would be "tried and condemned" by special tribunals. Few secret policemen accepted the offer. With thousands of them, armed and perhaps defiant, unaccounted for, it remained unclear whether they would vanish in the general confusion or carry on some form of guerrilla warfare against the shaky government...
...degenerative disease that attacks the nerves leading to muscles. Since then, the cost of a month's supply of Mestinon, the drug produced by Switzerland's Hoffman-LaRoche that helps control his disorder, has jumped from $65 to $136. In testimony before Congress last November, Green told the Senate Special Committee on Aging, "I fear the day when I will not be able to afford to purchase the medicine which is keeping me alive...