Word: bites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legal nicety. But Bush's aides believe they have struck a vein of patriotic gold with the issue. "It's a winner for us," says Chief of Staff Craig Fuller. "If Dukakis wants to debate the Pledge of Allegiance with us, we're happy to oblige." In the sound-bite brouhahas of a presidential campaign, the dispute over definitions of patriotism has hardly been edifying, and hardly the stuff of a significant national dialogue...
DRESS GRAY (NBC, Aug. 21 and 22, 9 p.m. EDT). Gore Vidal's script brings intelligence and bite to a tale of shady doings at a military academy. One rerun worth saluting...
...World Apart ends tragically. But the ending is not a statement of futility. It is an appeal with bite, pleading that South Africa not be forgotten 25 years later, since conditions have not improved...
...everyone shares Lipsig's view of his usefulness to society. Critics of big damage judgments blame aggressive liability lawyers for causing insurance rates to skyrocket and for putting the bite on city governments whose "deep pockets" are filled with taxpayer dollars. Says Blair Childs, executive director of the American Tort Reform Association, a lobby group in Washington: "Harry Lipsig typifies the system where no one wins but the likes of Harry Lipsig. A few others win big with him. But society is hurt...
...that Americans most often sample foreign cultures through their taste buds. After years of experimentation with burritos and Dos Equis beer, they are finally becoming a bit more sophisticated about Hispanic cuisine. The savory snacks of Spain known as tapas, the distinctive bite of cilantro (coriander) in a salad or seafood dish, and the fiery blast of salsa, Mexico's peppery condiment -- are now commonplace ingredients in the menus of non-Hispanic restaurants and, increasingly, in American home cooking...