Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...results were in, New Hampshire quickly became the Avis primary: a bitter race for the No. 2 try-harder slot. With victory all but ceded to Dukakis, Simon embarked on a last-ditch struggle to dethrone Gephardt as the principal challenger. Gone was the Illinois Senator's reticence about direct attacks; already in debt, he borrowed $110,000 to pay for ads deriding ! Gephardt's weather-vane voting record. But Simon's scorched-earth tactics could in the end mostly benefit Dukakis and Gore, whose money and organizational strength will keep them well equipped for the march through the South...
Leave it to a man named Lasse to direct the most scrupulously endearing Dog movie of the '80s. Hallstrom's hero is twelve-year-old Ingemar (Anton Glanzelius), a dour, dimpled soul who could live by the maxim: Expect the worst and you'll never be disappointed. A tabloid junkie, Ingemar scans headlines for catastrophes that might put his own aggrieved existence into perspective. Reading them helps Ingemar shrug off his own doglike life: "It could have been worse." So his Mom is ailing, and his beloved pooch is sent on a terminal vacation, and the town's toughest athlete...
...questionnaire will also ask a question of dubious value-- if students are satified with their "Harvard Experience." The UHS consultant responsible for the survey said they are doing this because, "in the past we have found that a student's general dissatisfaction with Harvard itself has a direct correlation to a general dissatisfaction with UHS." Such a skeptical attitude toward students with complaints is not good for any organization hoping to examine the quality of its services. This attitude could lead UHS to make the mistake of discounting any negative feedback from students who aren't satisfied with their"Harvard...
Then I remembered Laverne De Fazio and Shirley Feeney of Laverne & Shirley fame. Many critics saw a direct connection between the antics of Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams and those of Lucy and Ethel on I Love Lucy. The opening credits of Laverne & Shirley, with the two title characters capping beer bottles on an assembly line, are reminiscent of the famous scene of Lucy and Ethel wrapping chocolates in assembly-line fashion in one of I Love Lucy's most enduring episodes. And after all, what are Lenny and Squiggy but an exaggerated Ricky and Fred...
...course of the renewed discussion, the question was also put about my premature departure from the office of federal president," he said. "I want to take a stand in all clarity: You, my dear Austrians, have elected me federal president with a convincing majority in a secret and direct election for six years...