Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidate, it was a cause," recalled David Dreyer, Hart's former national-policy director. "I don't know of anything that suggests he is going to serve the cause by getting back in." Former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm, an old ally of Hart's, likened him to the "bastard cousin who shows up at the family reunion." Lamm added, "The Democratic Party will forgive past indiscretions, but I don't think the party will forgive someone solely interested in playing the role of spoiler...
...photos. In 1905 it published 138 pictures of ; the Philippines that were so popular the magazine had to go to a second printing. Source of the pictures: a U.S. War Department report, courtesy of Secretary of War William Howard Taft, who happened to be Editor Grosvenor's cousin. On occasion, National Geographic has not let verisimilitude stand in the way of a good picture either. Editors laying out the February 1982 cover on Napoleon's life and campaigns used a computer to shift the position of one of the Egyptian pyramids in a photograph so it would fit better within...
...authors set out to write a congressional cousin to to Theodore H. White's Making of the President books. What they would up writing was a long news story. It's a good story, if a bit dull and academic, with neat tables of poll data and primary election results. It will provide nice raw information some day for Government these by the babies that Jim Roosevelt kissed...
...Empire of the Sun, the boy is James Graham, eleven-year-old son of an English merchant in Shanghai at the first shell burst of World War II in the Pacific. Behind the camera is Jim's spiritual cousin, Steven Spielberg, 39. Spielberg's trials of the past couple of years have been nowhere so cataclysmic as those that befell Jim, his family and millions of other refugees under the imperial Japanese boot. Still, they must have injected an unwelcome dose of maturity into the man with a lock on childhood. The films produced recently under his aegis have fizzled...
...complain when they are turned upside down. Eeriest of all, they can sense, by sending and receiving radio waves, when other talking Cabbage Patch Kids are near. When one doll passes within 25 ft. of another, it calls, "Hi, there! Hey, look who's here! It's my cousin!" The dolls may then break into a round of Row, Row, Row Your Boat...