Word: building
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...rise in the perception of the governor's chances is based both on the current cachet of candidates that project images of clean living, as well as Dukakis's ability to build a successful political and fundraising organization...
...Schroeder, who coined the term "Teflon president" to refer to President Reagan and has referred to the announced Democratic contenders as "a bowl of unset Jello," urged her supporters to "build on gains we have made and not lose them...
...selecting theme music. The Huxtable family is modeled closely on Cosby's own, and many of the episodes are drawn from ideas he suggests. While filming his movie, for example, Cosby heard Ray Charles' recording of It's Not Easy Being Green. He asked the show's writers to build an episode around the song. Result: in one of this fall's segments, a sulking Rudy goes into her room for a wordless sequence set to Charles' music. Many of Cosby's ideas are the merest kernels of plots, which a staff of six writers must work to flesh...
...working for his father, who ran Sam Thomas Mercantile Co. ("The Poor Man's Friend") in Quitman. Nita first met him when he was 16, driving a yellow pickup, racing voters down dusty roads to the polls. They were married in 1950, and from there they went on to build a comfortable, prosperous life, largely through Sam's property dealings, and to have four children. One of them, Patti Harper, picked us up at the Shreveport airport with her own two offspring corralled in the back of her car, snarling for soft drinks. "We just had to do something about...
Castaway too derives its energy from a reversal. Turns out that Lucy is the one with a taste for solitude and the practicality that survival requires. Gerald is there to catch naps, sun and only the occasional fish. Even a sexual strike by Lucy cannot force him to build a decent hut or a productive garden. There is perhaps a parable here, which Roeg does not force: that woman, however liberated, will build a nest, and that man will wander, if only in his mind, no matter how circumscribed...