Word: cutter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Perhaps more important, the innovative visual style of Miami Vice has helped show TV executives that there are alternatives to the cookie-cutter blandness of most network fare. Says Joshua Brand, a co-creator of St. Elsewhere who is co-producing Steven Spielberg's new series Amazing Stories: "The success of Miami Vice shows that people do notice production values, lighting and what comes out of those little television speakers...
...shimmer of color, sometimes achieved with tiny droplets of tomato sauce dotted from a knife point to rim a sauce of grass-green pureed spinach or by flecks of herbs and vegetables added to a terrine of rabbit set in a pale, jewel-like aspic. Wielding a tiny round cutter that he found in Japan, Robuchon scoops pinpoints of ivory apple and jade avocado to be tossed with lobster for an intriguing appetizer salad, and he lards snowy codfish with slivers of pink salmon before braising the combination...
...people don't want his tax cuts and he's not going to get his tax cuts." Reagan thundered, only to quickly correct himself "Oh wait, I was talking of tax increases, he never asked for a tax cut in his entire career," Reagan said, "I'm the tax cutter, let's get that straight...
...Pete V. Domenici (R-New Mex.) will likely be the first to drop out of the race if voting goes to a second ballot. The Chairman of the influential Budget Committee and a 12-year Senate veteran, Domenici is known as a staunch budget-cutter and a capable, though profoundly unexciting, legislator. He's been keeping very quiet about his candidacy for Howard Baker's post--and not too many people are talking about him either...
...Dwight Eisenhower had no reason to think that Warren and Brennan would turn out to be flaming liberals; Ike later regretted Warren's appointment as his worst mistake. "People change on the court," says Dennis Hutchinson of the University of Chicago Law School. "They're not cookie-cutter ideologues...