Word: guying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading Jimmy Carter, 51-44 (while Reagan's principal Republican opponent, John Connally, trails the President, 44-52). Therefore his staff is creating what it calls an "expanded" or & "more reflective" version of the old Reagan. Says his national political director Charles Black: "We must demonstrate that this guy is practical and has the ability to run the country. We will be offering solutions, not just criticisms...
...that Lundberg seems to lack is some international swimming experience which he gained at the Games while learning that "international competition is not all glamor and glory; you're still a regular guy when you go on a trip...
...think I would have had the extra impetus to go faster if I had seen the guy in second place who beat me by 0.1 seconds," Raikula said...
...GOOD to be true; you knew it. Three years ago everyone was listening to ELO and Jimmy Buffett and all of a sudden there was this guy Elvis Costello singing about the end of the world. Elvis became, like his eponym, the King of Rock and Roll, only now they didn't call it rock and roll, they called it the New Wave. Because it was new--that was what made it great, that somehow from this extraordinarily restricted and limited form, when all the possibilities seemed exhausted, these lunatic geniuses brought forth the rock and roll Lazarus...
...things go in Monty Python's Life of Brian. The film is a send-up biblical epic recounting the biography of a chap born in the manger down the alley from the one people sing about each Christmas. Brian (Graham Chapman) is just a regular guy. He has a domineering mother, basically cowardly nature and no messianic complex whatever. But circumstances force him into contact with, among others, a lisping Pilate, an underground revolutionary group that spends more time in ideological debate than in overthrowing the Romans, and all sorts of people who think they require a savior...