Word: walters
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...personnel carriers, smashed over trenches and through 6-ft. barricades to battle squatters ensconced in the derelict blocks. While bricks and fire bombs rained down from rooftops, the authorities flushed out hundreds of squatters with clubs and tear gas. At least 160 were injured, including 90 police, and Mayor Walter Momper's governing coalition of Greens and Social Democrats collapsed because of the violence...
Probably not. For what is really important to Walter and India Bridge (Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward), citizens of Kansas City a half-century ago, is that the order of their rounds -- diurnal and annual -- is preserved. Drama in their lives is like crabgrass on their lawn: something to be rooted out the minute it appears and not dwelled upon thereafter...
...Walter can usually wither the untoward with a cold stare through his steel- rimmed spectacles, though sometimes it is necessary to bark a few brusque commands in order to send it scurrying. India, on the other hand, has a more coquettish relationship with it: she takes painting classes, flirts momentarily with divorce, psychoanalysis and the ideas of Thorstein Veblen. But whether the Bridges are confronting a tornado that Walter refuses to let interrupt dinner, their children's romantic and sexual hubbubs, a friend's suicide or simply the long silences of their own relationship, there is never any question about...
They exercise it with delicious subtlety. Walter's children and friends would be startled if they could hear him bellowing Stouthearted Men in the privacy of his car. Or see him make a sudden lurching grab for his wife in the ; privacy of their bedroom one hot summer's day. These urges do not surprise him. He is entirely aware of his secret life, and really quite pleased with it. But that's his business and no one else...
...blacklisting in the 1950s and canceled Edward R. Murrow's See It Now because he feared it was too nettlesome to the Eisenhower Administration. As a decision maker, Paley was cautious and vacillating; underlings snickered over his frequent "540-degree turns." Some of his most decisive moves -- like dumping Walter Cronkite from the anchor booth at the 1964 Democratic Convention -- were the most ill-advised...