Word: guys
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prove more than a match for Bush in articulating his party's agenda. The next President will find the new majority leader less interested than his predecessor, West Virginia's Robert Byrd, in parliamentary procedures, more skillful in forming coalitions, and equally unwilling to let Congress play a fall-guy role if the President tries to extricate himself from his "read my lips" campaign promises not to raise taxes. Says his friend and mentor Edmund Muskie: "George is a liberal but one who can win the support of many people because he's pragmatic...
...chat up girls and use a microwave. Both stars are expert at playing dumb in highly contrasting ways, and their search for their mother has its touching aspects. The whole movie has a warmth about it that never slops over into sentiment: there is much more here than tall-guy, short-guy jokes...
Gorbachev's success in recasting the U.S.S.R. as an international good guy is frustrating to many Americans. "It is ironic," says Robert Legvold, a Soviet-affairs expert at Columbia University, "considering that much of what Gorbachev has done the West has advocated, proposed, insisted on for decades -- from human rights to arms control...
STAFF WRITERS: Daniel Benjamin, Gordon Bock, Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua- Eoan, Philip Elmer- DeWitt, Guy D. Garcia, Nancy R. Gibbs, Scott MacLeod, Barbara Rudolph, Michael S. Serrill, Laurence Zuckerman...
...quite pull off the New Jersey punk of the script, but his portrayal of the native Boston variety is equally winning. There's something about a really thick Boston accent, liberally sprinkled with words like "dame" and "mug," that assures the audience they're dealing with a regular guy...