Word: bites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machinery still works. Sixty years after The Front Page hit Broadway, the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur farce retains its manic energy and toxic bite. Gags still pinwheel out of the plot -- the one about a managing editor trying to scoop the world on a big story while keeping his ace reporter from deserting him to get married. And, as three previous movie incarnations have proved, The Front Page turns briskly whether the reporter is a man (Pat O'Brien in 1931, Jack Lemmon in 1974) or the boss's ex-wife (Rosalind Russell | in the 1940 His Girl Friday...
Forward: Barbara Death, Cornell. If yousaw her jersey for the first time, you might say,"Naah, it can't be." Combine her with Savage andyou get a great name for a tag team. But beforeyou get the wrong idea, "Death" rhymes with"teeth." And she can take a bite out of opponents...
Bush's ad looked amateurish, but it had bite because it speared Dole where he was most vulnerable: taxes. "George Bush won't raise taxes, period," the ad said. "Bob Dole straddled, and he just won't promise not to raise taxes. And you know what that means." The commercial cost Dole votes in the taxophobic state...
...reputation for infuriating conservatives and liberals alike, except when he is busy delighting them. Apart from writing in the New Republic, Kinsley has been a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and has written for the Washington Monthly, Harper's and FORTUNE. No one is safe from his bite. After dedicating his 1987 collection of writings, Curse of the Giant Muffins (Summit Books; $17.95), to his parents, Kinsley added, "Any factual errors or lapses of judgment are strictly their fault...
...thing," says Ken Maginnis, Westminster M.P. for Fermanagh and South Tyrone, which includes Enniskillen. "Deep down, the mistrust between the two communities is still there." Says a Catholic parish priest in Belfast: "Every time there is a consensus, the I.R.A. delivers a reminder that it still has a vicious bite." And so Ulster watches and waits...