Word: bites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...consummate gentleman, Reston, 77, has survived the shark-infested waters of Washington with virtually no enemies and scores of admirers. Though criticized in recent years for losing his bite, he makes no apologies. "After more than 50 years," he wrote, "I remain an up-to-date, stick-in-the-mud optimist." Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger says Reston will not be replaced on the op-ed page. He will contribute some columns and concentrate on his memoirs, which he says will be a "long love letter to America...
...often, when confronted with a difficult satire, the actors, director, and crew go for the humor and ignore the bite or vice versa. But here is a complete farce that both delights and disturbs. Don't miss this opportunity to see a play by a too-rarely-produced playwright done without compromise...
...mere names before -- Inouye, Hamilton, Rudman, Mitchell, Boren, Hyde, Cohen, Hatch. Their questions, their demeanor and their quirks could be watched.They are now more recognizable than most of the "Seven Dwarfs" seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, who have largely been subjected to television's usual voice-over, snippety sound-bite techniques on the evening news. Of course, networks defend their sound bites by protesting how hard it is to condense all the news into 22 minutes; as serious journalists, they should consider dropping some of those cutesy sign- off feature stories that precede the anchorman's cheery "good night...
...suppose the Pogo Riot was like a football rally. There wasn't really any serious politics like, `get out and march,' " Verba says. "It was an era that was apolitical. It didn't have quite the bite...
...know of who will talk to just anybody off the street." The author also digresses into a three-page list of the inventory in Deren's store and reminisces about his own fishing experiences and misadventures: "The woman told me to hold still and the dog wouldn't bite me. I held still, and the dog bit me in the right shoulder. I told the woman that the dog was biting...