Word: dart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the heading "Armor" was this classic paragraph: "Scout vehicles dart in, spot the enemy. Report, Call in the heavyweights. Tanks, Big Tanks. Up to 57 tons of steel and 750 horsepower come thundering in on each set of treads, Stop. Fire, Maneuver, Stand your ground, Slug it out, Mighty machines. But battles...
...make fun of him"-| and employs superb, old-fashioned draftsmanship to put character before comedy. "I try first to make a face believable," he says, "to give another dimension to a flat, linear drawing. Then my distortions seem more acceptable." While Levine often wields his pen as a poisoned dart, he thinks that there are definite limits to his art. "I might wish to be critical," he admits, "but I don't wish to be destructive. Caricature that goes too far simply lowers the viewer's response to a person as a human being." When...
...speech at the Convention, based on the foreign policy plank of the party platform, called for a policy much like the one I was later to advocate within the Reagan Administration. Afterward, Justin Dart [a Los Angeles businessman], a member of the kitchen cabinet and an old friend, shook my hand and said, "You're our next Secretary of State." I was not surprised to hear this?the air in a convention quivers with hyperbole?but I did not take it as gospel. I went back to Hartford and my work...
...Bondingly balding Sean Connery, 53, as he donned a Wonder Woman wig given to him by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. As the band struck up 007's theme, the club's "Man of the Year" got the traditional brass pot, as well as a dart board displaying a picture of Roger Moore, James Bond's alternate alter ego. Connery, however, would probably rather be throwing darts at his former financial adviser Kenneth Richards, who allegedly put millions of Connery's into an unsecured French real estate deal, which collapsed. Richards was ordered...
DIED. Justin Whitlock Dart, 76, cantankerous California industrialist and longtime member of Ronald Reagan's "kitchen cabinet"; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Dart joined Walgreen drugstores as a stock clerk in 1929 after marrying the boss's daughter and eventually became the chain's general manager. In 1941 he moved to the Rexall Drug Co. and turned it into Dart Industries, a conglomerate he merged with Kraft Foods in 1980. Dart recognized Reagan's political potential and worked to advance his career, but refused to accept any high-level post as a reward. Said Dart...