Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with cotton candy in their mouths, plotting elaborate revenge with dim-bulbed resources. Cast Peter Falk as Dino Capisco, a dapper ) don just sprung from Sing Sing. Give him a score to settle with his weaselly partner Carmine Tarantino (Michael V. Gazzo) and a slick, Rudolph Giuliani- style D.A. (Bob Gunton) with an eye to nailing Dino's hide on the front page. Saddle him with a dog-stealing wife (Brenda Vaccaro) and a devoted but ditsy mistress (Dianne Wiest). And do make sure his life finally depends on the skeptical love and untested intelligence of his daughter Carmela Maria...
...political reason," he told TIME in an unprompted aside. "That's not why I proposed a constitutional amendment. And now I'm reading that people aren't interested in that ((issue)) anymore. Well, my ((internal)) clock tells me that's wrong, and I don't need ((Republican pollster)) Bob Teeter to show me a poll to make me convinced it's wrong." Although Bush insists that he does not steer his policies by the polls, he loves to use survey data to silence skeptics. After he permanently banned imported assault weapons, for example, he privately brandished poll results showing support...
...sort of people," says MacGowan, "who like to be snotty bastards, out in space." They just finished playing a few dates in the States, to get Peace and Love off to a strong start, and will return next month for a lengthier series of concerts, both opening for Bob Dylan and performing on their...
...matter how safe the seat, it cannot help a youngster sitting on an adult's lap. "A small child sitting unrestrained on a plane becomes a little missile when the aircraft hits severe turbulence," observes Northwest Airlines spokesman Bob Gibbons. Turbulence of the kind that recently jolted a Miami-bound American Airlines jet and injured 45 people poses more of a hazard to the average traveler than does the possibility of a crash...
White resentment over affirmative action has become a powerful undercurrent in race relations. "Whites think most discrimination is ancient history," says sociologist Bob Blauner, the author of a recently published oral history, Black Lives, White Lives. "They see things like affirmative action, and some people even think blacks have an advantage...