Word: flips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have seen him appear moody only once: at a lunch with six writers after the Democratic Convention, when the polls had given the Democratic ticket a momentary up-flip. He was disturbed not by Mondale's nomination, but by Ferraro's. He pondered it aloud, then reverted to his past. "You know," he said, "she steps on her own lines. She can't wait for the applause moment...
...gives a remarkably intense and believable performance as the battered wife. Her cover-girl face disfigured with cuts and bruises, the former Charlie's Angel movingly conveys both the helplessness and the courage of a woman trapped in a nightmare. As her husband, Paul LeMat reveals the flip side of the character he played in the 1980 movie Melvin and Howard. The lovable lout has turned into a dangerous brute; LeMat's subtle achievement is to s show that both are one. The rest of the cast, especially Richard Masur as Francine's bland, earnest, ultimately heroic...
...right to abortion. As Governor he has attracted $13 billion in new business investment, added 207,000 new jobs and raised educational standards through a series of reforms. In that evening's debate, Helms claimed that Hunt's "entire career as Governor has been based on flip-flops and contradictions when tough issues arise." Hunt exclaimed: "How far back do you want to take us-20, 30, 50 years? This is a state that is making progress, Jesse. You're just out of touch with...
...David's jokes are as old as he is; they only come to seem that way when he tells them over and over again. "The devil made me do it" is a corker that had pretty well run its course when Flip Wilson retired it about a decade ago. Heller makes David say it no fewer than three times. Who can forget the noted humorist and slugger Reggie Jackson and his boast "I'm the straw that stirs the drink"? Certainly not Heller, who uses this line three times as well. The spirit of Woody Allen is sometimes...
Shea, despite a litany of last-minute legislative flip-flops designed to make him look more liberal which have been duly noted by Atkins, has an immensely strong political base in his hometown of more than 80,000 residents. As a former city councilman and Lowell's representative to the Massachusetts House, Shea is credited by Lowellians with bringing in millions of government dollars to fix up the city's flagging downtown over the last 10 years. That shot in the arm from the state and federal governments has in turn attracted business back to the city. Wang Labs...