Word: barney
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Activists should use conventional political strategies to advance their cause, rather than employing alienating or violent tactics, said Rep. Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Mass.) in an address to a gay rights conference at the Law School on Saturday...
...those ineffectual men who take things too far when they are given a little power. In the movies, when an an ordinary person faces great, malign forces, that person is played by Gary Cooper or Harrison Ford. Jewell seems to be a pudgy version of Barney Fife. In this mismatch, he wouldn't appear to have a chance...
...BARNEY FRANK District 4 (Boston suburbs--Newton; New Bedford; part of Fall River...
...having sunk too low; instead, we fear we've risen so high we're being ignored during our quadrennial chance to show off. For a brief, shining moment we had Dick Morris: since then, nothing. After the second debate, where Jack Kemp, the designated slasher, came off more like Barney than Freddy Krueger, even Ted Koppel gave up. "Here we have one of the most civil debates in history, and we can barely stay awake," he said. Then the press began to chide moderator Jim Lehrer for being too nice. "He drains the energy out of the room,'' declared...
...hypothesis is that the upper-class students are just really nice people. Barney, the oversized purple potato of a dinosaur, seems nice too. But who's kidding whom? Inside that eggplant exterior lies a thought-controlling devil worshipper, just as behind that calm, friendly upperclass facade is the visage of a maniacal killer, waiting to snare some naive, unsuspecting sophomore for use as a sacrificial offering to the thesis gods...