Word: beards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Whether constituents agree with Reagan's plans or not, they are clearly stirred up and eager to sound off to their elected representatives. "The action out there is more than I've ever seen," said Republican Congressman Robin Beard after sweeping through the rural portion of his Tennessee district. "I have more people in my courthouse meetings than ever. They are concerned and worried and want to know what is going to happen...
...BEGINNING of Talley's Folly, it looks like Lanford Wilson has set out to illustrate a most commonplace idea: that opposites attract. The two characters that comprise his cast start at the antipodes of American society. Matt Friedman is a Lithuanian Jewish accountant, gray suit, beard and wire glasses, Mittel-European accent and Henny Youngman-style jokes. Sally Talley springs from a factory-owning Ozark tamily, works as a nurse in an army hospital (it's 1944) and has a jaw locked as tight as a cashbox. The two are not a very probable couple...
John Hildebidle, senior tutor of Adams House, said yesterday that he had beard no complaints other than the usual regrets concerning particular choices...
Attending a birthday party, he was shot twice in the chest by a man who was apparently gunning for one of Beard's friends. Suspect arrested...
...though he could not distill a publishable book, that passport to the literary world he saw only through the bottom of a glass. Instead, he sealed himself in the myth of the struggling, hard-drinking writer. He became a middle-aged character in Manhattan's East Village. His beard grew wild, as did his waistline. He dressed entirely in purple and must have resembled a hairy grape...