Word: inglis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reduced to only two when you moved into certain Houses. Or why any House would have a toilet paper quota to begin wish. Are Masters afraid, you'll spend all your time "squeezing the Charmin" instead of studying, or do they just want to prevent you from t.p. ing the Yard...
...meantime, the White House also managed to offend the West Germans. Kohl had been bypassed when Washington originally announced that Reagan would be in West Germany on V-E day, May 8. Later, without consult- ing Kohl, the White House announced that the President would address the European Parliament instead. The seeming ineptitude surrounding the Reagan plans is particularly surprising since it is the final project being handled by Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver, the President's usually masterly impresario, be- fore he leaves the White House for private life...
...Jesus Christ," exclaimed one potbellied, beer-carrying man as he came up the stairway, "it's nine to one. I missed seven....ing runs...
...ing. That's life for Ed Okin (Jeff Goldblum), a Los Angeles aerospace engineer who is so tired of his lot that he can't go to sleep. Something keeps him from closing his eyes. Is he hooked on banality? For its first 15 minutes, this movie certainly is. It falls in with Ed's somnolent gait, trudging through tapioca as Ed aimlessly drives to the airport after spying his wife making sex with her boss. By the time Ed nods over his steering wheel, you are getting very . . . sleepy...
...explanation is that most voters simply judged Reagan's policies to be working. Early in 1984, the nation was enjoy- ing its highest rate of economic growth in 34 years, its lowest inflation rate in twelve years and a rapid drop in unemployment. Reagan boasted that in four years the Soviets had not added an inch to the territory under Communist control. After four successive presidencies widely regarded as disappointing, Americans strongly approved a White House tenure that could be described, for the moment at least, as a success...