Word: flat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lincoln, and even he didn't acquire an empire for us, which you have done." Roosevelt, by contrast, is the "fat little President," a bellicose figure of fun with a falsetto voice, a habit of clicking his "tombstone teeth" and laughing like a "frenzied watchdog." These denigrations largely fall flat. In Burr, Vidal turned a villain into a hero, suggesting that another truth could be found on the dark side of legend; here the issue of Roosevelt's buffoonery hardly matters, since he is portrayed as simply following in the revered McKinley's footsteps...
...whiz who ponders computer printouts on everything from yesterday's price of steel scrap to next week's projected cost of cocoa beans. Says Frank Ikard, a former Texas Congressman who is a friend of Greenspan's: "He is the kind of person who knows how many thousands of flat-headed bolts were used in a Chevrolet and what it would do to the national economy if you took out three of them." But Greenspan can also debate larger social and political issues, a talent that eludes many of his number-crunching colleagues...
...first member of the TIME board to be named Federal Reserve , Board chairman. He will be remembered for his dry wit -- and one curious habit. Because of a sometimes bad back, he was occasionally prompted to stand while addressing fellow members, then to stretch out flat on his back on the meeting-room floor while others spoke. Most important, of course, Greenspan was esteemed for his sound economic judgment. "The views he shared with us were reflected in the stories we wrote about the board meetings," says Executive Editor Edward L. Jamieson. "But we also shared in many behind...
...Farmers' Inn, run by farm families, is in the black and riding high. "Hey, you don't know how miserable it was," Jack Brummond, chairman of the board of directors, was explaining the other day. Outside, the wind came off the prairie hard enough to knock you flat, and in the park at the foot of Main Street the Dr Pepper scoreboard by the girls' slow-pitch softball diamond was threatening to leave the state. "This is the social crux of our community. If we don't have this, we live in total segregation. The only other place we have...
Since then his repertoire has expanded. He played Dodge, a 75-year-old alcoholic dying of emphysema in Sam Shepard's Buried Child, a French nobleman in Moliere's School for Wives, Trinculo in The Tempest and a tough detective in Shepard's Suicide in B Flat...