Word: cliffe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poll taken by the Washington Post showed that 41% of the delegates surveyed favored an open convention. To reach a majority, said a key Kennedy strategist, "we have to convince the delegates that if they act like lemmings they'll end up marching off a cliff...
Often enough, the story lines come together in an apt, compact resolution to a wondrously complex plot. Toward the end of the past season, for example, the twine of stories looked hopelessly snarled. Cliff Barnes, now taking his revenge as an assistant district attorney, had Jock indicted for the murder, 28 years earlier, of Southfork Ranch Hand Hutch McKinney. But voilà Digger Barnes, on his deathbed, confessed to Miss Ellie that he had shot Hutch for planning to run off with Digger's wife Rebecca, who was carrying Hutch's child-Pamela...
...their roles like alter egos. Jim Davis, 63, a veteran of hundreds of westerns, drawls modestly, "I'm Jock Ewing without the money." (He may be a bit too modest: each principal actor reportedly earns more than $250,000 a year from the show.) Ken Kercheval, 45, whose Cliff Barnes is obsessed with ruining J.R., says of the murder attempt, "Actually, I hope it is me. I'd be an instant hero around the country." Victoria Principal, 30, had to adapt to the shifting of focus from Pamela to J.R., and she seems well adjusted. She calls Pamela...
...Randolph Powell), an unscrupulous lawyer whom J.R. used and then threatened with a bogus rape indictment; Vaughn Leland (Dennis Patrick), J.R.'s banker, who was ruined when he bought into a Ewing double-deal; Bobby Ewing, whom J.R.'s dastardly business ethics finally drove from Southfork; and Cliff Barnes, who swore on his daddy's grave that he would avenge the family honor and "stop J.R. for good...
...plotting here is elegant. The motives all touch on Dallas'pervasive themes: sex (Sue Ellen and Kristin), money (Alan Beam and Vaughn Leland) and family (Bobby and Cliff). For the mystery's solution to be equally impeccable, the culprit must come from inside the family. This would permit many of the new episodes to revolve around the altered relationships of the assailant and the other Ewings, especially J.R., who could be expected to devise an ingenious form of revenge. But Capice suggests otherwise: "The ripple effect from the revelation will be minimal. We'll move...