Word: fondnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that would cost taxpayers at least $300,000. Bryant's heavily religious appeal ("God drew a circle and more or less asked me to step into it") has attracted fundamentalists and much of the Miami Catholic community, including family-oriented Cubans and Catholic Archbishop Coleman Carroll. Bryant is fond of quoting Leviticus, which calls homosexuality an abomination. Gays respond that the singer is arbitrary about which biblical injunctions to preach. Her husband, for instance, regularly violates Leviticus' admonition against shaving. Anyway, says Gay Writer Arthur Bell: 'Leviticus is as relevant to the times as Little Women...
...Even the sunniest tale needs an undertone of true menace to capture a child's imagination, as Disney in his early years rarely forgot. Here, in the movie's signature tune, Raggedy Ann sings that she's "just a rag dollie, happy and smiling all day." Fond, foot-tapping parents may tell themselves that this is enough. Kids know better...
...Soviets to destroy them all. The surviving cruises would then be able to counterattack the Soviet Union. The number of Russian antiaircraft weapons required to shoot the incoming cruises out of the sky would bust the Kremlin's military budget. No wonder the Pentagon is so fond of the drone...
...LEAST SOMEBODY'S GOT SOME TALENT AND DIGNITY AROUND THIS PLACE AWARD: To Red Skelton, who brought back fond memories...
...seven, earned two degrees in economics but decided that the field was "just a game." What he finds "interesting about law is that it deals in concrete terms with fundamental value conflicts." Bringing that philosophical approach even to his estates and gift-tax course, Calabresi is specially fond of his first-year class in torts. Says he: "I love teaching, and there is something particularly appealing about teaching a subject that seems to deal with the lowest kind of relationships-accidents, ambulance chasing-because you can show students that these raise the most fundamental questions about the structure of society...