Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, thank God that our hero fireman decided to retire to Nicholas, because without him Ernest probably wouldn't have been able to fight off the bad guys. They rebuild the bar and turn it into a resort called Club Paradise, where wacky things happen to our cast of journeyman comedians and comediennes. This includes almost the entire cast of the recently pathetically unfunny Saturday Night Live...
...doll. In the spring of 1912 he fell violently in love with Alma Mahler, widow of the composer and a pretentious man-eater. Their affair lasted three years, and she dumped him in favor of the architect Walter Gropius soon after Kokoschka enlisted in the imperial dragoons to fight in the first World War. This, combined with the horrors of the trenches and the shock of being shot and bayoneted nearly to death, drove O.K. over the brink. He had a Munich dollmaker construct a soft, life-size, redhaired effigy of his former lover, fetishistically complete in every anatomical detail...
Often, George resembles nothing so much as a big devoted dog. He follows Simone trustingly, dressing in clothes she buys for him, waiting for her patiently. And, every once in a while, he bares his savage teeth, ready to fight to the death to protect his master. As they cruise through the red-light district looking for Cathy, suddenly a man attacks the car. George mechanically grabs the man's head and beats it bloody against the windowframe...
...seat-belt requirement would induce the feds to exempt Nevada from the 55-m.p.h. restriction. No such luck. When the Federal Highway Administration promptly announced a cutoff of road-building funds--including $66 million for next year--the state just as quickly backed off. But not without vowing to fight: the state has filed a suit against the Federal Government, calling the threat to stop funding an infringement on states' rights. It is, said Nevada Chief Deputy Attorney General William Isaeff, "like putting a gun to our head...
...responding by emigrating in large numbers." Overall, he is pessimistic, saying "Ordinary whites think the maintenance of law-and- order justifies the emergency regulations. The country is moving to the right very, very fast, and not just the Afrikaners but the English-speaking population as well. They will fight tooth and claw to avoid their fate...