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...spends her days sitting on the front stoop of her inner-city apartment house, gabbing about the things real people talk about, like when the garbage will be picked up and why the landlord is such a grouch. Gibbs' hangdog cynicism is funny, and the writers have a good ear for dialogue. In one scene Mary's 14-year-old daughter tries to sweet-talk Mom into letting her and a friend go to the movies. Mary figures out the ruse and turns them down. "Told you it wouldn't work," says the daughter as they stalk...
...argument, Daffy encounters some pronoun trouble and tells Elmer, "I demand that you shoot me now!" Daffy turns to Bugs, sticks his tongue out in "nyah" fashion and promptly gets both barrels of Elmer's shotgun. When the smoke clears, Daffy's beak is arranged around his left ear, with the tongue still protruding. Daffy deftly pushes the tongue back into the beak (to a cork-popping sound effect), replaces the mandible, stalks over to Bugs and / mutters, "Let's run through that again." Bugs' cunning, Elmer's gullibility, Daffy's indomitable ego and Director Chuck Jones' comic artistry...
...undermined Jimmy Carter's authority. The relatively quick release of the TWA 39 not only averted that danger but enabled Reagan to turn his attention back to some pressing domestic concerns that had threatened to get out of hand. And at least for now he would probably have the ear of a grateful public...
...keeeee-o-kee-o, he says zestfully right into my ear. He sounds pleased with himself; I know I am mightily pleased with...
...initial hijackers, who called himself "Castro," spoke German better than English. When he discovered that Traugott was born in Berlin, "he immediately called out my name and came over to me," recalls Traugott. "He put his 9-mm pistol against my forehead and put a hand grenade against my ear." In German, Castro asked, "Have you fear?" Traugott replied in German, "No, I have no fear." That answer, says Traugott, seemed to surprise Castro, so Traugott added, "O.K., a little bit when you have the gun and the grenade there. Take it away." Once Traugott entered the lavatory just after...