Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This year's team will try to avoid becoming only the fourth team in Crimson history to lose five consecutive games in a season when it travels to Princeton Saturday to face the Tigers...
...funny lady and dreams of public confirmation of that status. Steve Gold (Tom Hanks) is a sort of drug-free Lenny Bruce, brilliantly spritzing free-associational social comment and autobiography. If Lilah is trying to escape the traps of the lower-middle class, Steve is trying to avoid the respectability and stultification of the upper-middle class...
Will they meet? Will he try to be her mentor? Will she try to mother him? Need you ask? Will these two succumb to romantic entanglement? Well, no. Despite nicely managed temptation, they avoid it, and credit goes to David Seltzer for that intelligent choice. And for a movie that is full of terrific comic material and well-cast second bananas (John Goodman as Lilah's befuddled husband, Max Alexander and Mac Robbins as ne'er-do-well comedians...
There is no meaningful answer. The combinations of events in possible tragedies are infinite and unpredictable; the rituals of Cabinet and NSC meetings, addresses to the Congress and the American people that must follow a transfer of power are an automatic part of the system. A President could not avoid doing these things, even if he wanted...
Quayle's first instinct to avoid answering a "hypothetical" question was right. He simply lacked the presence of mind and the knowledge to squelch that hoary journalistic dog. What did the reporters have in mind -- a President dying of a lingering illness, downed by a terrorist missile in Air Force One over the Mediterranean, resigning because of scandal? A Vice President's response would be different in each situation...