Word: graffe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said at the beginning of the season that senior leadership and good defense were keys to our having a good season, and against Cornell we got both," junior defenseman Rob Graff said...
...They contend that it reflects a growing antiCommunist fervor and could help make military conflicts in Nicaragua or elsewhere more acceptable at home. Others argue that the film is serving a legitimate therapeutic function. "We're in the process of assimilating Viet Nam into our American experience," says Henry Graff, professor of history at Columbia University. "Pictures like Rambo allow us to think it through 20 years later without the pain of the casualty lists before us." Stallone is impatient with critics who call the film reactionary. "So it's a right-wing fantasy," he says. "Like Valley Forge. They...
Logically (and originally) enough, Baby is about the process of having one. For the youngest of its three central couples (Liz Callaway and Todd Graff), this is as easy and cheering as rolling into bed of an evening. For a slightly older pair (Catherine Cox and Martin Vidnovic), it is an anguish; their scientifically orchestrated struggle to conceive is a humiliation to him and a vast inconvenience to her romantic impulses. For the oldest twosome (Beth Fowler and James Congdon), who already have three grown children, it is a bestartlement; they had no idea that weekend at the Plaza would...
Whether the latest Washington flap was as big a deal as the Democrats, certain newspapers and the TV networks made it appear, however, was highly doubtful. It will depend in large part on how the briefing papers were acquired. Columbia History Professor Henry Graff put the episode in perspective by noting, "This is not something that has struck a lot of people in the solar plexus." A Columbia colleague, Political Scientist Alan F. Westin, criticized the tendency of many journalists thoughtlessly to dub the affair "briefingate" or "debategate. Said he: "I find myself just bored to tears by someone sticking...
...Henry Graff points out that we have had no ex-mayor as President since Grover Cleveland. "Mayors deal with garbage and garbage rubs off." Hubert Humphrey (Minneapolis) came close, however, and Senator Richard Lugar (Indianapolis), one of the biggest Republican winners on Nov. 2, gets talked about...