Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...water," Vliet says. Because of their poor underwater vision, submerged gators are not so worrisome: "I assume that if I'm going to be attacked, the alligator will do it from the surface." Vliet has never been bitten, only "mouthed" once. Says he: "Gators get bad press. Tarzan movies did immeasurable harm to their image...
...hangs over Ford: the $2 billion debt load built up during the lean years. Says Auto Industry Analyst Ann Knight of Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins: "They can dig their way out of it, but the deterioration of their balance sheet is cause for concern." Yet after all those recent bad years, Ford is not thinking too much about the debt. With a few good years, the company could pay off its old loans-and more...
...back of the barn," says Bourne, who comes from the sweet-sounding town of Netherhill. "It can be a simple or a complicated game, eh?" Yes, whichever you want it to be. "Well, I think most Canadians want it to be simple. Cheer the good plays, boo the bad. Worry about who wins later...
...anecdote bears a more than passing resemblance to The Hunger, a current high-gloss horror epic in which Bowie appears, memorably, as a kinky vampire who becomes suddenly susceptible to the ravages of old age and bad living. This may be a case of a movie feeding off an old myth, or a fresh myth being created to help a new movie; in any case, Bowie's musical excursions into sexual exotica, like John, I'm Only Dancing, have always seemed more like exercises in style than specific autobiography. His gay following was strongest, not surprisingly, in the Ziggy days...
...came through that trilogy. And I think I was successful at dropping my personas completely." Perhaps; or, anyway, dropping them as much as a showman-savant like Bowie ever can. Some lines from Ashes to Ashes come to mind: "I've never done good things/ I've never done bad things/ I've never done anything out of the blue...