Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stumping in California, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis bragged Sunday about the liberal tradition, claiming that rival Vice-President George Bush was "dead wrong" in saying he wanted to divide the country. Bush, speaking in Philadelphia, shrugged off recent polls that showed his lead narrowing, saying he would campaign harder than ever in the final week before the Nov. 8 election...
...Ingmar Bergman were dead, he might be rolling in his grave over the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club's production of Red Noses. But since he's alive, he'd more likely by rolling in the aisles...
...charge of Dukakis-bashing would be true only if there were no real state issues at hand," he said. "It's unfair to ask the legislature, which is constitutionally mandated, to roll over and play dead simply for the national election...
...power in the State House to even attempt to bring a bill to abolish rent control, I want to bet you that if you even had a hearing on it, you're probably dead on the way out the door," said Thompson...
Ostensibly, this pilgrimage to pay respects to and then bury the dead is Exley's story. In practice, the narrative evolves into a surrealistic odyssey. On his flight, Exley bumps into James Seamus Finbarr O'Twoomey, a preposterously gross Irishman with an equally incredible brogue ("Frederick, me lurverly, there you go again") who will later hold the hapless author hostage in a Pacific paradise. Also aboard is the future Mrs. Exley, a murderously sexy flight attendant named Robin...