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Buckley was cut halfway through the NFL exhibition season without getting a chance to play in a game. Patriot coach Ron Erhardt had him slated to play the fourth quarter against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in New England's second pre-season match, but decided not to insert him with a 17-16 lead...
...Connor's devotion to detail soon became legendary. She once offered an amendment to a bill merely to insert a missing, but important, comma. As majority leader, she learned to use both tact and toughness to cajole colleagues into achieving consensus on divisive issues. When the usual flurry of eleventh-hour legislation delayed adjournment of the Arizona legislature in 1974, one committee chairman was furious at what he considered O'Connor's failure to finish up the senate's business. Said he to O'Connor: "If you were a man, I'd punch...
...maneuvers his platoon into and out of World War III. Director Ivan Reitman is a canny merchant. He knows that the easy laughs are the surest, that teen-agers love to watch goofballs shape up without losing their shambling style, and that it doesn't hurt business to insert a sorority shower scene or nude mud-wrestling match every half-hour or so. Stripes will keep potential felons off the streets for two hours. Few people seem to be asking, these days, that movies do more...
Some variant of this story has been told, filmed and staged many times: Making and Losing It in Tinseltown. Carpenter does not try to extend this formula, but neither does he take it seriously. The plot is chiefly an excuse for the author to insert some of the inside information about Hollywood that he picked up over the twelve years he worked there. He shows how deals are made, who gets the money and how easily a film project can go into turnaround, i.e., fall apart. Luckily, Carpenter's breezy, irreverent story hangs together...
...twice as many posters as other student groups do, because anti-gay students rip down half of the gay notices. Restricting the posters to a few places seemed to guarantee that all GSA and GOOD posters would be removed. After protesting the decision without success. GSA decided to insert literature on GSA in student registration packets as several other undergraduate organizations have done in the past. But suddenly the administrators were pointing to a "policy" they had never mentioned before and that was not in writing anywhere, forbidding student organizations from including literature in the registration packet. The GSA lined...