Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film focuses in on a New York neurotic Jew who bumbles along with one-liners trying to cope with his problems. Leonard Zelig's chief disorder is that he wants to be liked by everyone. It starts when he feels compelled to join in a discussion of Moby Dick although he has never read the book. Zelig's condition worsens until he assumes the characteristics of the people he is with: Chinese with Chinese, Black with Blacks, American Indian with American Indian, fat with fat men, a psychiatrist with psychiatrists...
Arriving at Logan Airport at 1 p.m. with his aides and popular Black humorist and political activist Dick Gregory. Washington was sped by limousine and police escort to White's residence on Beacon St. for what Washington would only say was a courtesy call...
...have stringent guidelines for the use of federal-owned automobiles," the says use Dick of Helmer, seniorgroup director of the watchdog General Accounting Office, "but nothing on aircraft."As a result, said the GAO in a report last week, there is widespread waste and misuse by U.S. officials of Government air planes. The GAO looked at purchasing and maintenance practices in 19 agencies, ranging in size from the relatively small Bureau of Reclamation to theTennessee Valley Authority, and found...
...problem that Americans are only now beginning to see: How can you make a culture of congestion work, and turn constriction to advantage? The main cultural myth of America centers on infinite space, limitless resources, and the energies they foster. Without these, such diverse cultural emblems as Moby Dick, '50s tail fins, westerns and the paintings of Jackson Pollock would not exist. Neither would those words in the Declaration of Independence, so bizarre to the Japanese, about pursuing happiness. When they find their space is finite, their resources limited and their social energy grossly deformed by the friction...
...with the nation's major foreign book publisher. "The trouble is, you can never tell which book will become a bestseller in Japan. A popular novel in America does not necessarily sell well here. I always trust my sixth sense." Among Hayakawa's trusted novelists: John Gardner, Dick Francis, Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Wambaugh...