Word: gutting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government insensitivity and indifference, the President hedged--succeeding only in intensifying those impressions. Appearing before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee. Attorney General William French Smith pledged the Administration's support for extension of the Voting Right Act of 1965; at the same time, he demanded certain revisions that would effectively gut the law. Welcome back--the same people who brought you tax exemptions to racially discriminatory schools, now present you with a fresh, new controversy...
...bullying and slightly crazed ingenuity. To accompany him on a shopping trip is to be lectured on U.S. civilization and its discontents. He tells everyone who will listen that the end is near. Reports Charlie: "He said the signs were everywhere. In the high prices, the bad tempers, the gut worry. In the stupidity and greed of people, and in the hoggish fatness of them." The country will soon collapse into class war, he assures his son: "When it comes, I'll be the first one they kill. They always kill the smart ones first." He is also...
Harvard hockey coach John Dooley is one who's sad to see the Ivy championships go. "It's my gut feeling that we're losing a great tradition," he said...
Charlie (Nicholson) has come to El Paso, where he works as a border patrol man, at the urging of his ditsy wife Marcy (Valerie Perrine). This is a couple living on memories-of the days when he had all his hair and less gut and she had not yet become a middle-aged Barbie doll from overexposure to The Price Is Right. To finance all of Marcy's dear dreams, Charlie agrees to look the other way when illegal immigrants are spirited across the border to serve as the wetback-bone of Texas agriculture. It remains for Maria (Elpidia...
Bertagna said earlier this week that he has "no faith" that a construction company will complete the stadium work by next fall. "I just have a gut feeling that it would be foolish to try to meet the September 15 deadline," he added...