Word: happen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move from sex to romance when Danny calls. "I was pretty drunk last night," she giggles, "Did anything happen?" "No," says Romeo, "Would you like to try it again tonight?" You guess where they end up after a few drinks at Mother's--dare we call it their place--and just what they end up doing...
...Eighth Congressional District has yet to be offered a look at the people behind the campaign rhetoric. If the voters are to differentiate among the candidates, they must see each politician's skill in defending a position without ready recourse to an issues director. This can best happen in one-on-one debate, where candidates who have watched and analyzed each other for months will be able to go at each other freely and with ample time...
...advantage of Gramm-Rudman is that it madeclear what would happen if the administrationfailed to go along with Congress. Theformula-based cuts that would take over were notnecessarily favorable to the administration," hesaid...
That is an almighty freedom, absolute. We imitate it as we can, but human freedom is a cruder business. We sometimes manage to make the miraculous happen. But we have to work at it. Earthly freedom, where it exists, is a turbulent medium, full of rough winds and ironies. It is bracing and potentially dangerous. Freedom is a powerful animal that fights the barriers, and sometimes makes people wish for higher fences...
Those refined elitists, the Europeans, happen to like our vulgar moronism. One recent week in Britain, five of the top ten singles were by black Americans. Last year two-fifths of French movie box-office receipts went to U.S. films. A catalog detailing such worldwide U.S. hegemony is a source of pride and some embarrassment. Most of the 47 radio stations in Lima, Peru, play mainly American pop music. In Nairobi last week, ten of the 16 movies playing were American, and in a record store at the Sarit Centre shopping mall, a poster of Joe Piscopo, of all people...