Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cereal. Other, broader gags can be quite funny. When one character finds himself face to face with a loaded gun, he coolly dares the malefactor to shoot: "You're not scared, are you? . . . Maybe you're too used to having someone do your dirty work." Only this time the bad guy interrupts by blowing him away...
Alfa Romeo is in bad shape, having lost an estimated $170 million last year. Even so, Ford had wanted to use Alfa's products to compete in the European and U.S. markets for luxury sports cars now dominated by such rivals as Mercedes- Benz and Jaguar. But Fiat was eager to protect its No. 1 position in Italy by keeping Alfa out of Ford's hands...
Certainly for an Administration to violate even the spirit of U.S. laws, including laws that it rigorously enforces on others, is a serious matter. But it is far from the only bad consequence of the misadventure in Iran. U.S. officials were obviously justified in meeting secretly with Iranians willing to re-establish contact. Given Iran's geopolitical importance, it would have been irresponsible of the Americans not to do so. In diplomacy, especially in the Middle East, a country sometimes has to talk one way and act another. But to connive at arms sales to Iran, for whatever reason, seems...
...isolated, living in Taos, no one told me any different." In Mexico to make a movie in 1983, he panicked, tore off his clothes and, after walking naked through the countryside, was arrested and sent back to the U.S. "Dennis tapped the bottom," Nicholson says of the bad old days. "He was staying at places that didn't allow visitors. It wasn't Sunnybrook Farm -- no sashay through those rich men's rest homes. He did the real stuff...
...wailing guitars (a Morricone trademark in his scores for Director Sergio Leone) and screaming saxes, vamping freestyle on the thinnest of musical motives from such films as Once Upon a Time in the West and The Burglars. Not for every taste, to be sure. Call it The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but check...