Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many fans who actually attend sporting events hate televised sports. Television programmers require referees to create dead time so they can run advertisements. Commerical breaks are a lot more annoying when you're at the game because you can't change the channel...
...story was clearly high. "In 1983, 241 Marines were murdered in Beirut by terrorists mounted by Iran," he says. "Most of them were 17 to 21 years old. They were our sons; they were our brothers. That burned in my memory. Then the incredible thing happened: over the dead bodies of those Marines, the United States of America sent our best missiles to Iranians who sponsored the killing. I never got that out of my head. How could that happen?" For a journalist, such fervid personal involvement might seem overwrought, not to say unprofessional. "People say I'm not cool...
...killer," a rare signal of Big Blue's anxiety about a smaller competitor. But IBM's new machine has lacked sufficient software to be fully competitive against the now entrenched VAX. IBM sold fewer than 5,000 of its VAX killers last year, far from a knock-'em-dead performance...
...Bush staff members are not gluttons for publicity; they can afford to be discriminating. If they sniff a hatchet job, they steer clear. On his copy of the letter, Bush wrote, "I feel comfortable with Rather. Make sure this guy gets reply soon." Campaign Manager Lee Atwater was dead set against the interview. He was wary of Rather, but he was in the minority...
...anguished intensity of vintage Bergman. At its worst, with its English-speaking actors sporting Middle European accents, it reminds one of De Duva, a parody of Bergman films in which Death (speaking in Borscht Belt Swedish) gets dumped on by a symbolic dove. Sleek and lubricious, elliptical and dead serious, Lightness dares to be laughed at. It surely demands to be admired...