Word: isn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commemoration of all she has given and, lately, received, the world's top singer-dancer-comedian-songwriter-actress-author-survivor-thriv er-dynamo- divinity deserves some special prize. The Tony isn't tony enough. The Nobel Prize wouldn't be noble enough. And so to you, Bette Midler, the academy of your admirers is pleased to present its Life Achievement Award for the body of your work. And the work of your body...
...traffic controllers in 1981, he is known to have directly dismissed only a few top aides in his entire political career. One was John Sears, his 1980 campaign manager. Reagan summoned Sears and two other advisers to a hotel room in New Hampshire and said, "Fellas, this isn't going to work...
...with what he viewed as General Douglas MacArthur's insubordination as commander of United Nations forces in Korea, Harry Truman told an aide, "The son of a bitch isn't going to resign on me! I want him fired!" Yet Truman did not complete the deed in person; instead he relayed his orders, signed by Army General Omar Bradley, to MacArthur in Tokyo. As it turned out, MacArthur learned indirectly from radio reports that he was out before Truman's message ever reached...
...Cuomo, in a biblical paraphrase he has often used in interviews, "let the cup pass"? Was it, perhaps, timing? "When you are second in the polls and you haven't even gotten in the game yet, there isn't any reason to be discouraged," said a wry and relaxed Cuomo the next day. He emphasized the difficulties of campaigning for the presidency while holding another office. "You can't win without going to Iowa and New Hampshire. One of the candidates has been in Iowa for 50 days. I can't say, 'Hi, I'm Mario Cuomo. I'm only...
With seven unrelated segments, the troupe tackles a wide variety of subjects, from city living to elementary school Winter Pageants to Mister Roger's neighborhood. But "tackles" isn't really the right word--the troupe seems to be having too much fun to want to hurt anything. Thus, their satire never has a cutting edge. On a bare stage, these two men and three women bound around with so much togetherness, good will and boisterousness that the place begins to resemble a positive energy seminar...