Word: darning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...survive in an unfriendly world. Melvin battles for the title "Milkman of the Month," not so much for the first prize, a color television, but for the recognition. When confronted with a last-minute obstacle to his victory in the contest, he says in protest, "I'm a darn good driver." The moment has a peculiar poignancy; Melvin's hurt is genuine...
...Darn Fool...
After encouraging students to learn from each other a well as from Harvard, Bok recommended that they consider spending time away from the University. "Here's this darn fool of a president telling them to leave whenever they want--but I believe it," Bok told apprehensive parents...
Indeed, the entire speech sounded as though it were delivered off the top of Reagan's head, that the thoughts had just occurred to him and, darn it, he was going to share them with his friends all over America. Said Wisconsin's Republican Governor Lee Dreyfus, a Ph.D. in communications: "I'd give him an A if he were in my class." That was the mark generally awarded Reagan, even on a bipartisan basis. Said Theodore Sorensen, who helped draft John Kennedy's 1960 Inaugural Address: "Reagan tried to make the tent he was constructing...
Company numbers come off the strongest. The cast of five dance and sing best when all together. Porter's "Too Darn Hot" is the most successful number in the show. The choreography is smooth, the performance fairly polished. The women's trio in "I Can Cook, Too" evoked loud laughter, as did the men's equally amusing rendition of the song in a modern parody of the 1944 Bernstein classic. After Hours could use more of this kind of innovation...