Word: chauncey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sadly, Gary Hart says more about us than he does about himself. As Chauncey Gardner, the idiot in Being There said, "I like to watch." We have watched Hart's bedroom antics. And today, we will watch him wriggle on the cross...
...other sports action, former All-Americatennis player Larry Scott became the first Harvardplayer since Chauncey Steele in 1970 to compete atWimbledon, sweeping past Greg Holmes of Salt LakeCity in the first round, 6-4, 6-2, 7-6 (9-7tiebreaker). Scott's stay was short-lived,however, as he fell in his second-round match toMichiel Schapers...
Bird watching. Noun (archaic). A form of harmless staring, conducted in woody areas, by genial eccentrics often named Matilda or Chauncey...
...problems with the wind and didn't steer as well as I should have," said the Crimson coxswain, Chauncey Wood. "That affected the set, the run and the effeciency of the boat...
...then Reagan has always been attended by an aura of amiable averageness. The producer Alfred de Liagre said that Reagan on film "always had the manner of an earnest gas-station attendant." Liberal writers have dismissed him as ideologue, cretin and airhead, or worse. They have thought of Chauncey Gardiner, the transcendentally brainless seer in Jerzy Kosinski's novel Being There. Gardiner, in the eloquence of his idiocy, becomes a national oracle. "How humiliating," the columnist Nicholas von Hoffman wrote of Reagan in 1982, "to think of this unlettered, self-assured bumpkin being our President...