Word: dicks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Richard Stengel. reported by Dick Thompson/San Francisco
Uncle Scrooge never had the high-style sizzle of Superman or Prince Valiant, or the cockeyed melodrama of Dick Tracy, but the mock-heroic sweep of Barks' stories and the whimsical clarity of his drawing made a heavy mark on a generation of children for whom comic books offered a powerful mythology. That mark shows up in some unlikely places. Barks' stories, as Film Director George Lucas points out in his affectionate Appreciation, are "very cinematic. They...don't just move from panel to panel, but flow in sequences-sometimes several pages long." Fans of the Lucas...
...COLA benefits. Reagan's senatorial friend Paul Laxalt argued for the compromise, but the President demurred. Reagan, however, did agree to consider the twin delays as part of a compromise package. Now it was the Democrats' turn to respond. O'Neill leaned toward Boiling and asked, "Dick?" Replied Boiling: "We just can't take that." By Boiling's count, Reagan was offering to trade a $7 billion budget savings in delaying the tax cut for a $16.6 billion savings in COLA. That, O'Neill said later, was like "giving an apple for an orchard...
...president, who had made Johnson his assistant. Winning a Senate seat in 1948 by 87 votes out of nearly 1 million cast, "Landslide Lyndon" set about cultivating Georgia's powerful Richard Russell. He would invite Russell to dinner and coach his daughters to call the man Uncle Dick. That campaign paid off. When Russell was in line to become Senate majority leader, mentor graciously stood aside for protege...
Lowenstein "could win the whole thing," Coach Dick Crosby predicted confidently Wednesday, calling him a player who "has as much talent as any young player I've seen in a long seen in a long time...