Word: badly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country to be liked by humanity -- not through lies, but because of the truth it brings to the world. But most of all, I want our country to like itself. We love it, are proud of its traditions. But not all traditions are good. And priterpelost is a bad tradition that must be rejected as being incompatible with perestroika...
...fought to keep what you took," he says, "not what you bought." His literary pedigree is by Charles Dickens out of Budd Schulberg. When Tyson wasn't mugging and robbing, he actually raised pigeons, like Terry Malloy. A tough amateur boxer named Bobby Stewart discovered Tyson in the "bad cottage" of a mountain reformatory and steered him to D'Amato's informal halfway house at Catskill...
...nice conceit that Roger, Baby Herman and all the other characters from '40s Hollywood animation are creatures of a subhuman species known as Toons. They breathe, they emote, and sometimes they get cuckolded by their sultry wives. Jessica Rabbit, Roger's spouse, is one such bimbette. "I'm not bad," Jessica pouts, "I'm just drawn that way." But all Toontown knows she's been spending time with Marvin Acme, who owns the local gagworks. So when Marvin gets bumped off, Roger is the prime suspect. His only hope is Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), a human detective who has been...
...shared tastes, good and bad. Thus when staid comrades bent to the lighthearted task of choosing 16-year-old Maria Kalinina in a bathing suit as Miss Moscow last week, the world could afford to relax a little. It will relax still more if next week's party conference keeps its promise of liberalizing Soviet society -- even if delegates do not snake-dance down the aisles in funny hats amid balloons and confetti, as their American counterparts will be doing later this summer in Atlanta and New Orleans...
...this is not to downplay the potential threat that Rowan may have faced, nor to condone the delinquency, arrogance, bad judgment, and lack of respect which the teenager showed towards the Rowan family at 2 a.m. that Tuesday night. It's just to suggest that Rowan, like the rest of us, would have been far better off without his handgun...