Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kept his own hands clean, the leaders of his machine, with his apparent approval have regularly engaged in extortion and misuse of city resources. The latter has generally involved petty acts aimed at political foes Last winter, for instance, city snow plows frequently cleared every street in certain neighborhoods, except those where White's opponents in the state legislature lived (State Rep Jim Brett of Dorchester, who opposed White's "Tregor" funding bill for Boston called City Hall anonymously to complain the response "Call your rep and tell him to vote for Tregor.") Another recent tactic has been to send...
...luckless New York Jets. The Crimson will be appealing on limited basis over the next week. We'll publishing. Wednesday and Friday; and taking a mid-season break before returning February 2. Under new management, then, good luck of exam taken a drinking and studying don't mix. except sometimes...
...uncertainty in the capital was heightened by the resignation of Richard Schweiker as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and by word that Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker, the Senate majority leader and Reagan's point man on the Hill, may not run again in 1984-except possibly for President, in the event Reagan decides not to seek reelection...
...constructed character who could never face the brutality of the external world and is forced to wither away in the vapid small town. Dennis brings this crazed woman's self-proclaimed role as the mother of Dean's illegitimate son into perspective; she has no other reason for living except for the attention she has received for her son Jimmy Dean--who she maintains is an imbecile...
Jean (Suzanne Bertish) and Rita (Fran Brill) seem not to have come from the same womb. Jean is frumpy, asocial, infertile and separated from her husband. Rita is chic, impregnable as a rabbit, and antiseptically fastidious, except when it comes to stealing another woman's husband. Jean has tended the senile, incontinent mother for desolatingly lonely months; Rita has used the Ma Bell commercial method of reaching and touching by phone. Waves of passion rise between the two sisters like water spuming against a coastal reef, then subside in daughterly grief before the great silence: death. Suzanne Bertish...