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Such results are commonplace in Cambridge, which uses a system of proportional representation (PR) that virtually assures re-election for incumbents. In fact, many city residents joke about the real meaning of PR--perpetual representation, they dub...
...Peng and President Yang Shangkun reportedly informed Deng that the movement had spread "to high schools, the countryside and even among the workers." Deng, whose sole official government title is Chairman of the Central Military Commission but whose ironhanded control of the government has led the students to dub him the "Emperor," agreed that the protesters intended to overthrow the Communist Party. Referring to the turmoil that has accompanied political reform elsewhere in the socialist world, Deng said, "Look what happened in Poland, Hungary and the Soviet Union." He called the demonstrators "a black hand against the party and myself...
...Show or General Hospital. On the 90-min. Studio Tour you don a yellow slicker and become skipper of the good ship Miss Fortune, buffeted by wind and water. As a "Foley artist" in the Monster Sound Show, you desperately improvise sound effects to accompany a comedy thriller, then dub your voice to match the moving lips of Clark Gable or Jean Harlow -- and listen in giddy horror to the results. Sit in a formica booth at the Prime Time Cafe, a gorgeous riot of '50s kitsch, and waitresses dressed like early TV moms dote...
...reunited last April when O'Toole joined Alec Guinness to dub parts of the restored film under Lean's direction. "It could have been macabre," he acknowledges, "but it wasn't. It was fun. For one thing, David and I could see Lawrence in a different light. We were more detached, and the way to capture those moments seemed clearer. It's the old story: actors play Hamlet in their late 20s and then realize in their mid-50s that they now know...
...during a White House photo opportunity that Bentsen's J.F.K. line was a "cheap shot." Responded Dukakis campaign manager Susan Estrich: "When the Republicans call something a cheap shot, you know you've scored a direct hit." Republicans tried to make a virtue out of necessity by having Quayle dub himself a "lightning rod" for Democratic attacks...