Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cooper (Sam Shepard), who accurately describes himself as "the only man in town under 60." Shepard spends his screen time looking befuddled, as if to ask, "Was there any reason I was cast in this film, other than that I am the only man in Hollywood with teeth as bad as Diane Keaton...
This is not to say that the foreign research assistant is necessarily onto a bad thing. On the contrary, he now has ample opportunity to enter into copious correspondence with the assorted lunatics of his MP's constituency. From them he will learn such endearing and necessary information as the fact that youth unemployment in Britain could be substantially alleviated if not actually eradicated by the simple expedient of building a wall around the Isle of Wight. This, incidentally, also would have the beneficial effect of preventing the erosion by which the island apparently is much menaced...
...think he's angry about it," Dole said said of Reagan. "He feels personally bad about some of the Republicans, I must add, and some of the Democrats who have politicized this confirmation. I think he used the words that it has taken a lot of the dignity away from the entire process...
...expected to find a sign or exhibit, some concrete acknowledgement that once blacks were enslaved there, bound up and put down there. And I expected the sign to say that was bad. But there was no sign, only a small marker near some small shacks. "This is where the slaves slept," it read...
When the U.S. resigned from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1984, a major reason was the alleged bad management and antidemocratic sentiments of the organization under its director-general, Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal. Citing the same reason, Britain left in 1985. Last year M'Bow announced he would not seek a third six-year term, and there was some hope that the U.S. and Britain might rejoin the agency, whose programs have been crippled by the loss of Washington's $48 million annual contribution...