Word: carvey
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonder that Dana Carvey can recognize himself in the mirror each morning. Ever since he joined "Saturday Night Live," Carvey has taken over various personas from the Church Lady to President Bush, to Garth of "Wayne's World" fame...
Ironically, in Movin', an awful Richard Pryor movie some years back, Carvey played a schizophrenic who haunted Pryor. There are probably a couple of reasons for the unique pattern in Carvey's career...
...Rockefeller IV and Albert Gore Jr. '69 and Representative Richard A. Gephardt--the heavy hitters of the Democratic party--spared us the vicissitudes of Cuomo-esque posturing and bowed out under the assumption that Bush could not be beaten. The country seemed destined for five more years of Dana Carvey's gesticulating impressions...
That simplistic dismissal of complicated problems is what the Bush Administration encourages us to keep doing with its "Read my lips" domestic agenda and "Just Cause' foreign policy. That oversimplification and abdication of thought is what television satirist Dana Carvey captured when he parodied how President Bush sought to seek credit for the revolution in eastern Europe last winter...