Word: grinch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rather than stick to the original U.S. goal of a medium-range-missile deal not linked to SDI. If Reagan accepted the bait, as he initially did, the Soviets would be in the catbird seat. Either Reagan would end up curtailing Star Wars, or he would emerge as the Grinch who stole Christmas, the man who dashed hopes for a radical breakthrough in arms control...
...impulse," DeVito insists. "It just made sense. I had an apartment, and she supported me." Perlman, a scrappy 5 ft. 1 in., co-stars as the lonely termagant Carla, a kind of female Louie DePalma, on NBC's Cheers; posed together, Carla and Louie could be figurines on the Grinch's wedding cake. But Rhea and Danny have made better luck. They have lived together for 16 years and were finally married in 1981. "At the ceremony," DeVito says, "we had a recording of Rhea's favorite song, Alfalfa's rendition of I'm in the Mood for Love, taped...
...Burger King had never made the rules of the game clear in its advertising campaign. The lawmakers threatened to "invoke remedial legislation" if the company failed "to rectify the consumer fraud it has perpetrated." Said Senator Parsons: "I feel what Burger King did was as bad as what the Grinch did when he stole Christmas...
...WONDERFUL LIFE (Harvard Science Center), but then Jimmy Stewart's already said that. But it's worth saying again, and Capra's classic Christmas flick is worth seeing once every year around holiday/exam time. Stewart plays the small town bank manager who is threatened by the local Grinch in a business suit (Lionel Barrymore...
...ages 5 and up." To solve this obvious slip in judgement, I propose that the man who determined that age guideline should stand underneath the dart board while a randomly picked five-year-old shoots for bullseyes. It's stuff like this that makes me into a grinch...