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Waving a six-inch stogie as he growled his prepared notes, Auerbach said all foreign service officers hail from the Fletcher School of Diplomacy at Tufts, Georgetown "or some such place where they learn which fork to use and what to say and how to kiss rear ends...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Red Auerbach Touts Hoop Diplomacy | 12/5/1979 | See Source »

Speaking of a small eastern Kentucky town, Nunn scoffed: "I know where Johnson's Fork is. My opponent probably thinks it's something you eat caviar with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Let's See Some Teeth | 11/19/1979 | See Source »

Indeed, commercial spots for a half-hour episode of M*A*S*H would bring in $900,000 now, compared with the $180,000 or so the Carter-Mondale Committee would have to fork over. (An FCC decision on their case is expected within two weeks.) The networks deny that money is a factor. They argue that if they sold one half-hour spot, they would be besieged with other requests; moreover, they say the candidates would do better buying time on local stations during the primaries. Reagan's staff did just that, but on a national scale. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: TV Politics | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

...covered organized crime for many years: "The underworld and the upperworld have converged in their morality over the past several decades. The underworld has not moved over to us, but we have moved in its direction." The victims, of course, are the honest taxpayers, who will have to fork over more and more to carry the load of the connivers and chiselers who pay less and less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Take Cash and Skip the Tax | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

...block out all the answers and reasons and verbal explanations and just concentrate on the pure contradiction, it could ruin the concert: Bob Marley, the king of reggae, singing "You Belly Full, But We Hungry" before thousands of Bostonians who were able to fork-out ten to 12 bucks for the ticket. Add to this, Harvard's Soldier Field Stadium. This is the same place thousands of graying, pudgy Harvard and Yale alumni sit each year in racoon coats drinking Johnny Walker Red, restraining their sphincter muscles and occasionally letting out quiet moans of excitement as they relive their repressed...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: Bob Marley: The Rasta Wizard Puts on Ivy | 7/20/1979 | See Source »

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