Word: glue
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lauderdale demurs when confronted with his reputation for being the glue that holds Adams House together. "I'm just another little guy. I'm your average Joe Blow on the street corner. That's how I look at myself...
...hours of uninterrupted time." He describes a recent favorite, Oww, God, Mom, the Dog He Bited Me: "There's a clump of Band-Aids in the bottom corner. A dark background. A stick figure whose head is a blur of blood. Then a very small dog, made out of glue. There is a house, a little black bump. It is pretty crude, pretty primitive and minimal. I like...
Network researchers suggest that viewers are just getting tired of pushing those buttons. Crazier things have happened. In 1975 Nielsen showed another alarming drop in viewership. Turned out the problem was the glue attaching the meters to the TV set. As the sets heated up, the glue cracked and the meters disconnected...
...that of Nixon with Eisenhower -- bridge to the right, voice of the right, pacifier of the right. In the latter role he has already been criticized by the National Review and conservative columnist Eric Breindel. It is a high-risk position, since reflex anticommunism is not the right-wing glue it was before Mikhail Gorbachev. Quayle has treated changes in the Soviet Union as suspect, while saying he does not differ from the President (the refrain against which all Vice Presidents must play their own tunes). Quayle is loyal to individuals, as he showed in the Senate...
...like rubber, you're like glue. What you say bounces off of me and sticks to you," said the biologist...