Word: gagged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...congressional amendment has the vigorous support of Ronald Reagan. The President last week pressed hard for it and another favorite idea, his New Federalism program; he journeyed to Baltimore to plug that plan at a gathering of county officials and found himself hugging a gag gift of a stuffed "presidential seal." But his mood was stern in the White House Rose Garden, where he told reporters after a meeting with amendment supporters: "We must not, and we will not, permit prospects for lasting economic recovery to be buried beneath an endless tide of red ink." Reagan this week plans...
...gag works for a while, as Martin weaves his own plot-web into the 18 old movies, but pretty soon he's traveling on old good will and flop sweat. I'll say this: he travels in good company. Rachel Ward, his femme fatale in this activity, has taunting cheekbones, eyes like veiled promises and a body that speaks in languages not yet discovered. Miss Ward, just because I have to collar your pal for creative fraud is no reason we can't be friends. My number's in the book. The name is Marlowe...
Lind is nothing if not uneven. Weirdness follows weirdness, vision succeeds vision, sometimes worthy of a Hebrew prophet, sometimes no more than a gag-writer's whimsy. But Travels to the Enu adds up to far more than a tour de force. It takes true stamina to be so profoundly lost. After all these years on the road, Lind is no more bitter and no less funny than when he started, an impressive feat given the course of history in the meantime. His mind may swarm with hoofed and steaming demons like a phantasmagoric painting by Pieter Bruegel...
...genial host at a White House dinner party, Ronald Reagan could not resist getting off a one-liner. He would have preferred a barbecue in the Rose Garden, he said, but all that smoke from the flaming grills might have violated the Clean Air Act. The gag evoked a chuckle from his guests. But environmentalists around the nation were not amused. They see the wisecrack as just one more sign of the Administration's hostility to maintaining the quality of the nation...
...campaign for reelection in high gear, Gov. Edward J. King files multimillion dollar libel suits against every magazine and newspaper in the state. "Anything they print about me hurts me," King says adding that he has asked the State Supreme Court to enforce a gag order regarding his activities and statements on all Bay State journalists...