Word: buckleys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This fall marks the return of Brian Buckley, the quarterback who was supposed to fill Larry Brown's shoes after Brownie took off in search of the Astrodome. He had impressive credentials: 26 completions as a sophomore, a 6-ft., 3-in., 195-1b. frame, and a classy, standup, lefty style. Restic agrees, "Buckley throws the ball very well; he's the best pure passer of the group...
...English. It hardly corrupts the reader's morals, as some critics have charged, but it may help corrupt his language. The work, eight years in the making, publicized like a space shot, high on the charts, frequently reads as if translated from the Albanian: "This was when Jim Buckley met Al Goldstein, whose spy piece he helped to edit, and whose expressed frustrations he not only identified with but saw as the compatible essence of a viable partnership-or at least some hedge against the probability that neither of them could ever make it alone...
...passel of columnists-among them such articulate fellows as William F. Buckley and George F. Will-espouse the same economic and social causes as Reagan does, but when they get to discussing Reagan's knowledge or reasoning powers, they sound somewhere between patronizing and apologetic. Carter, however, lacks even such a community of ideological backing in press or country; his yawing on issues has disaffected groups of supporters he could normally count upon. Liberal columnists, though they long ago gave up on Teddy Kennedy, like his brand of Democratic rhetoric. Carter's old buddy Andrew Young now writes...
What bothered some viewers was the capriciousness of the networks' intrusions on the convention. Frequently, they interrupted speeches in mid-sentence for floor commentaries that were no less boring-or for commercials. "Everybody under stands the need for commercials," said Columnist William F. Buckley. "I mind much less yielding to Wheaties than I mind yielding to pundits...
...woman trapped in a burning car), and some critics complain that the magazine gives more flak than fact. Contributors, paid $700 to $1,000 for feature-length articles, are known for their ponderous prose. Explains Dowie: "When they should have been in class learning to write like William Buckley and George Will, they were on the front lines...