Word: chucks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kennedy spokesman Chuck McDermott accused Roosevelt of "practicing the politics of exclusion." He said Kennedy has "too much respect" for his other opponents "to exclude them from the dialogue. It's unfair to the voters...
What is it about the works of Howard Hawks (The Big Sleep, Bringing Up Baby), Chuck Jones (Bugs Bunny cartoons), Phil Spector (The Ronettes, The Righteous Brothers) and Aaron Spelling (The Love Boat, Dynasty) that make them unmistakably American artifacts? To a good part of the rest of the world, the U.S. is nothing but its global pop gush. Not the Bill of Rights, not Mary Cassatt, not George Balanchine but Madonna, The A-Team and Sidney Sheldon. The respectable pieties are correct: sure, America is the land of freedom and the land of opportunity. But it is perhaps more...
...Swedish director wanted to make a Rambo," says Marcus, "it wouldn't be very convincing. Only Americans are arrogant, vulgar and moronic enough to make a fantasy like that credible. But I'll put our vulgar moronism versus their refined elitism any day. I'm not saying Chuck Berry is better than Flaubert. But I also don't want to live in a world where there's only one or the other...
...some of its nine predecessors, this year's version includes some refreshing observations on the overrating of the Cardinals' rookie outfielder, Vince Coleman, a long and brilliant account of the managerial chess game played at the 1985 world series, and a mordant treatise on the beloved and blinkered manager Chuck Tanner, who somehow failed to notice that his Pittsburgh Pirates clubhouse had turned into a drug den (beat reporters, please copy...
...after day Rogers made minor corrections in his commission's course, added and subtracted subtleties, coped with small explosions (Pilot Chuck Yeager's absence from commission meetings became a public issue). The commission's speed and competence have been praised on all sides. Rogers' experience is no small part of the success...