Word: cleaver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Consumer finance representative Terry Maxwell, 35, and her husband John, 33, a wine-company salesman, brought their year-old child to Seattle from Orange County just five months ago. Recalls Terry: "We came here to try to live a simple life on one income. I wanted to be June Cleaver; you know, 'Honey, I'm ho-ome!' " But they soon became disillusioned by the surprisingly high cost of living -- including what they call "sneak taxes" on housing, autos and services -- and convinced that opportunity knocks louder back in Southern California. "I'd love to take our house and lake with...
Since it has produced a meat-cleaver approach to budget cutting, the Gramm- Rudman mechanism has itself become a target. Senator Ernest Hollings, one of the authors of the legislation, announced last week that he was ready for a "divorce" from the act. During Senate hearings on reforming the budget process, Budget Committee chairman Jim Sasser of Tennessee said, "Gramm- Rudman is teetering on the verge of becoming more a part of the problem than a part of the solution." Sasser says the law has the Government keeping two sets of books: one devised to meet Gramm-Rudman, "which...
Granieri's intellect and photographic memory are already legend among his friends. When a roommate arbitrarily pulled out a book--Eldridge Cleaver's Soul On Ice--from his shelf, Granieri was asked to recall the first word. Instead, although he had not read the book since high school, Granieri recited the first paragraph almost verbatim...
...urgent all-points bulletin is broadcast over the police radio frequency. Two men in Brookline, one wielding a meat cleaver, have robbed a man and fled on bicycles. The pair then stashed the bikes in a black sports car and drove away. Harvard police hear the report over their police scanners, but since there are no reports that the two are headed to Cambridge, the police know they are unlikely to encounter them...
...movie's problems lie chiefly in the script itself. Lengthy jokes about condoms and parodies of Morton Downey, Jr. (one skit called "The Morton Downey Family Show" is a depiction of what "Leave it to Beaver" would have been like with Mort as Ward Cleaver) have been done too many times to be funny anymore. Script problems combined with poor editing lead to skits that come off as stale and cliched...