Word: albert
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Latin community. Led by an 80-year-old former cigar maker named Virgilio Fabian, the men are virulently Democratic, a sharp contrast to the largely conservative Cubans only a couple of hundred miles away in Miami. Earlier this spring the group rallied around the presidential candidacy of Albert Gore. Since Gore dropped out of the race, the new favorite is Michael Dukakis...
Since he is a millionaire recluse who lives with a monkey and wears a single sequined glove, Michael Jackson qualifies. So does President Andrew Jackson, a card-carrying aristocrat who insisted on creating a backwoods image as "Old Hickory." Prominent achievers like Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford all fit the profile. Others that make the grade are less well known. They include a Long Island vampire expert, a California professor of frog psychology and a Virginia doctor who disports himself in a clown's nose and goofy hats and refuses to charge his patients...
...critical moment in the talks, the U.S. negotiators in Geneva found themselves bargaining secretly not with the Soviets but with a delegation of American Senators led by former Democratic Presidential Candidate Albert Gore...
...last minute about the new American proposal, advocates of Midgetman were furious. They included four outsiders whose backing was important if the Administration was going to maintain bipartisan support for its defense policies: Brent Scowcroft, a former National Security Adviser in the Ford Administration; Democratic Senators Sam Nunn and Albert Gore Jr.; and Democratic Congressman Les Aspin. All had been supporting Midgetman for three years, arguing that it had the twin virtues of being harder for the other side to hit, since it was mobile, and less threatening as a first-strike weapon, since it did not have multiple warheads...
...movie Real Life, Albert Brooks plays a documentary filmmaker who spends weeks living with a "typical" American family, filming their every move. But his cinema-verite opus runs into trouble, and he decides to salvage it by creating a blockbuster ending: he sets their house on fire. So what, he reasons, if his real-life film suddenly turns fake: "What are they gonna do -- put me in movie jail...