Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...competing plans that had passed both the House and the Senate the previous week. And yet even as Republicans tried to sound magnanimous, hints of resentment kept creeping in. With the air of a hostess who has suddenly chanced upon a badly dressed party crasher, Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison sniffed, "I don't think it's quite fair for the President to come in with changes that are not in either the House or the Senate bill...
...their letter the 20 Senators said they were not supporting or opposing the proposal to expand NATO, but they advised Clinton that a lot of "contentious" matters would have to be debated when they take up the issue. "I don't think there's organized opposition," says Kay Bailey Hutchison, a Republican from Texas who circulated the letter, "but I do think there's a growing group of questioners...
Watch him at work in the 1946 It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra's Christmas confection with the bittersweet center. Stewart, as young George Bailey, is stepping up on one of his shaky soapboxes to tell off crippled town bully Lionel Barrymore. It is the first of many righteous harangues George will deliver, and at first he doesn't realize this one will get him in serious trouble, for he is talking himself into a lifetime sentence in Bedford Falls. Stewart seemed to spend most of his career on the threshold of puberty; the anguished ripple of a high...
...real life he gave up his career to join the Army Air Corps, distinguishing himself on bomber runs. But those clear eyes, as blue as the skies patrolled by the Strategic Air Command, saw terrible things. He returned to movies with It's a Wonderful Life, where George Bailey does good deeds in a small town that his ambitions were too big for; he is a hero because, with reluctant grace, he made the noble compromise...
...teach an old soldier new tricks, but you may be able to rid him of his nastier habits. GENERAL HALFTRACK, who was doddering when Beetle Bailey first joined the Army in 1951 and must by now be a very old dog indeed, is being sent for sensitivity training. "The real-life sexual-harassment problems the Army was having kind of spilled over onto us," says Beetle creator Mort Walker, 73, who has faced the wrath of feminists in the past. "Some editors felt that although we weren't condoning it, we were on the edge." So, no more chasing MISS...