Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...environmental protection and nutritional assistance that Congress can deal with as it wishes. Off limits for Bush is the defense budget, frozen at $291 billion after allowing for inflation, and the near sacrosanct $247 billion for Social Security. Unfortunately, those huge budgetary no-trespassing signs mean that only meat-cleaver slashes in the jumble of discretionary programs could possibly make the Bush proposal meet the Gramm-Rudman targets. But the President's team is not going to squander political capital on such a fool's errand; that messy job is left to Congress...
...sample was accurate, it means that at least 99 percent of the men in our society think they will marry June Cleaver. Or more accurately, 93 percent think they'll marry Mrs. Cleaver, while another six percent think they'll marry Ms. December...
...that Medea is not from the right side of the Parthenon, so he sends her walking. Likewise, Medea's Nurse (Zoe Mulford) is looking out for her charge. Mitchell's hard-edged Creon is not exactly Heath-cliff Huxtable. But Mulford, with her sympathetic swooning and simpering, makes Mrs. Cleaver look like an absentee parent...
...word political slogans doesn't mean that we should ignore what the candidates are saying on AIDS or the budget deficit and focus exclusively on Jackson's apparent meglomania, Dole's "darkness" or Dukakis' stubborness. If Sheehy really wants someone with a "flawless character" like Ozzie Nelson or Ward Cleaver to run for president (which is the impression she gives), why doesn't she just...
Fortunately, Akeem has Semmi as a foil. Hall's Semmi is a smarmy, false opportunist, but like Akeem, he's a caricature. Together, Akeem and Semmi are like adult versions of Wally Cleaver and Eddie Haskell. Their squabbles are amusing, but Hall and Murphy's cameos are funnier and more interesting than their primary roles...