Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last thing you notice about Prizzi's Honor is that the credits at the end of the film roll by too fast for you to catch the names of any of the actors except the two main stars...
...Humorist Art Buchwald saw it, White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan had given supporters of New York Governor Mario Cuomo reason to rejoice. How? By lambasting Cuomo as a "glib, fast-talking lobbyist for a reactionary liberalism" in his campaign against President Reagan's tax-reform plan. And by branding the Democrats' star performer a "welfare statist" who belongs to an "American Left" whose "dirty little secret is that it is interested in power, not people." Such choice abuse, in Buchwald's view, added up to the "kind of endorsement from the White House" that "a Democratic candidate...
...electronics history. The videocassette recorder took six years (from 1975 to 1981) to reach the same milestone. "We're selling every single CD we can get our hands on," says Donald Swallen, vice president of the eight-store Swallen's retail chain in Cincinnati. "We can't order them fast enough...
Americans should stand fast against those who believe we are responsible for the current Middle East crisis. Our history of involvement in that region is by no means without blemish, but we are not the motivation for terrorism and violence, that is built into the system. We would support any free, democratic nation in the Middle East, as we support Israel. America has been, and always will be, on the side of nations that prize freedom. The Shiites are simply out to destroy those nations in any way possible for their own fanatical reasons. The Shiites desperately need the publicity...
Shoemaker notes that recognition brings some liabilities: "When agents hear of the $210,000 paperback-rights sale, they step up their asking prices for new manuscripts. And there is the danger that maybe the adrenaline won't flow quite as fast after our first big success." But fears like that belong to what San Francisco Novelist Herbert Gold has labeled the Age of Happy Problems. North Point has not only put itself on the map, it is helping to redefine the boundaries of U.S. publishing...