Word: bedpost
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...have to believe that premise for the rest to follow. It's very Reaganesque. Where the former President saw a Russian lurking behind every bedpost, Bush sees rogue nations holding America hostage. Where Reagan liked simple story lines, Bush likes executive summaries. A missile shield is a succinct solution to a complex problem. Like Reagan, Bush prides himself on cowboy toughness--on being a man who knows what he believes and charges fearlessly ahead...
...wakes up groggily. He sees the clock and tries to jump out of bed only to immediately bang his head on a street sign that Joe inexplicably tied to the bedpost the night before. Joe gets knocked unconscious...
...member of the Republican leadership is like a rabbit, and that's worth the whole million. But some freshman from Tennessee? The value's not there." He isn't as specific on which government officials merit the full bounty. But you should save your breath if you notched your bedpost with an assistant secretary for fossil fuels...
...goings-on outside the rear window of Jeffries' Chelsea, New York apartment. Lisa Carol Freemont's theories of the murder are founded on the ideas of female ritual and manner. She claims that the missing Mrs. Thorwald would not have left without her favorite handbag which hangs on her bedpost. Nor would she have left all her jewelry at home, much less in the handbag where it would have gotten tangled-up and scratched. And she absolutely would not have left her wedding ring. So she was murdered. L.B. Jeffries, "Jeff" for short, wants to know what Mr. Thorwald...
...actually an action movie with a sub-movie grafted into the middle. You can see the French movie-based part--and you can see when it suddenly jerks back to the action movie. Not off-putting--just a bit abrupt. (It goes from Jamie Lee Curtis licking the bedpost to terrorists bursting...