Word: cranked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then they should vote for Bill Clinton, according to "The Action Man," the notorious crank caller who for years has plagued and entertained hundreds of male Harvard students...
...admitted that he had often been "disengaged" since the New York primary, helped shape the re-organization by doing what for him was the unthinkable: he wrote a memo. Titled "the Clinton Action Team," the document outlined what would become the famous quick-response war room, designed to crank out swift replies to any Republican charges. Clinton belatedly made it clear that the campaign's headquarters would continue to be in Little Rock, despite the loud objections of some aides who would have preferred any of several more cosmopolitan locations (Carville's choice, for example, was Atlanta). The aides...
...time he died of a coronary thrombosis at 63, Brideshead Revisited (published in 1945) and the Sword of Honour trilogy (completed in 1961) had sealed his reputation as one of the century's great masters of English prose. They had also established him as an elitist, antiquarian crank who was both literally and figuratively deaf to a modern world of "plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz" that he found as alienating as prison...
...their third and latest album, Angel Dust, Faith No More's response is to rev up their guitar engines, crank the bass, drums and keyboards, and with a loud scream put the pedal to the metal and once again blaze their own road. Some of the songs are indeed catchy, but don't expect them to become Top 40 fodder, as neither the band's turbulent sound nor its acerbic wit has been sacrificed...
...million. People will pay to see them, but studios don't want to pay the huge freight: $60 million or more, plus mammoth marketing campaigns. That's why this summer, except for the behemoth sequels, looks to be the most pacific in recent movie history. The moguls would rather crank out a succession of $12 million teen-targeted comedies and pray that one or two will hit the mark...