Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when the cause is just, Reagan has offered no such help to South African Blacks. Half lame duck, half rabid dog, Reagan has backed into a corner, all alone in his stance for "non-punitive" measures against the Pretoria goverment...
...party momentum as it heads into the '88 sweepstakes. Democrats would interpret a Republican defeat in the Senate as a sign of the public's dissatisfaction with Reagan's policies. An intransigent Democratic majority could thwart the Administration's legislative agenda, turning the President into a genuine lame duck and perhaps stealing some of the thunder from the Republicans in the contest to succeed Reagan...
...went -- into It. Before he began the book, Stephen thought about a favorite image: the entire cast of the Bugs Bunny Show coming on at the beginning, Yosemite Sam, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and the gang. In a surge of adolescent enthusiasm, King burbled, "Wouldn't it be great to bring on all the monsters one last time? Bring them all on -- Dracula, Frankenstein, Jaws, The Werewolf, The Crawling Eye, Rodan, It Came from Outer Space, and call it It." But how could he combine them all in one book? Simple. Use a Tulpa -- the Tibetan word for a creature...
...sessions in the recording studio (his new album, delayed several times, is due to be released in January) have dimmed his star power. Coppola has not made a hit film since Apocalypse Now in 1979. Lucas has sponsored a couple of expensive duds this summer (Labyrinth and Howard the Duck) and has seen his hugely profitable Star Wars merchandise inch toward the remainder shelves...
...emergency exits, were caught in the random gunfire. Arun Athavale, of El Toro, Calif., saw a family of four sprayed by bullets but could not tell whether any survived. Athavale, who escaped injury by falling to the floor, said later, "Most of the people who got killed didn't duck." Outside the aircraft, people were walking around in a daze, too shocked to realize they were among the ones who had been spared...