Word: funs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World According to Garp is mostly about the true final frontier--human sexuality, the hysteria and madness and cool fun and hot passions therein...
...least the cool fun. Garp's trusted friend is the transsexual Roberta Muldoon, formerly Old Number 88; the crack-backing, pass-catching Robert Muldoon, star tight-end for the Philadelphia Eagles. When Roberta finally dies, there is a moment of silence before the Eagles take the field. "She had a great pair of hands," the announcer intones reverently...
TEXAS. Again a personality clash between two conservative candidates. "I think the race is getting to be more fun all the time," says William Clements, the multimillionaire oil-drilling contractor who is running for Governor. Clements' idea of fun is to skewer his Democratic opponent, Texas Attorney General John Hill, whom he derides as a "claims lawyer and a career politician." When Hill accused Clements of resorting to "Nixon-style Watergate tricks," the Republican replied: "Hill seems a little sensitive to me." The main campaign issue is how to spend the state's $3 billion surplus; no matter which candidate...
...diplomats began telling jokes about Chavez's tale, saying it was a CIA propaganda ploy to induce more Russians to defect. Another diplomat quipped that perhaps there should be a new bumper sticker proclaiming: DEFECTORS HAVE MORE FUN. In Washington, the CIA saw less to be amused about. Director Stansfield Turner explained that while Shevchenko "is receiving compensation from the CIA commensurate with his services and value to the U.S.," he is getting nothing for a "female companion." Jimmy Carter got into the act by observing at his press conference that sums such as those reported by Chavez "would...
...this reticence? "It's more fun like this, to play a guessing game," said Freddy Plimpton. Other alleged participants may be motivated by fear of possible Times retaliation. Said one of the four or five Times employees who lent assistance: "I've been on strike for two months, I have ten kids, my mortgage payments are overdue...