Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right to quit, of course. It was time; some of us had begun to miss broadcasts now and then, though always with a good reason and a note from our mothers ("Jack was in a holding pattern above Logan Airport; please excuse his absence"). Still, it felt funny to know that Keillor was quitting cold, that he was going to live in an apartment in Copenhagen with his Danish wife Ulla. It was as if a tall, shock-haired boy we had all thought especially promising were heading off to the big city with a private smile on his face...
Daryl Van Horne (Jack Nicholson), a newcomer to Eastwick, is everything the women crave, fear, pity, hate. He is, in other words, a man. In public, he snores like a boar. His jokes smell, and he does too. He is, he admits with the grin of a baby Hitler, "just your average horny little devil." With a capital D. Big Bad Beelzebub. But devilry in New England is not what it used to be. Women suspected of having sex with Satan are not burned at the stake; they are snubbed in the check-out line. And in an age when...
...sprightly oldster). Then there's Nicholson. Well! He might have been rehearsing for this role ever since The Shining. If he was over the top there, he is stratospheric here. He is a beast on two legs, grunting, slavering, pawing anyone, and never mind the scratches. Does Jack stink like Daryl? No, he is gloriously rank. Sulfuric, in fact...
Where most candidates say the Times has gone too far is its wish to review medical records and FBI files. "We have no interest in waiving privacy rights to allow newspapers to go on a fishing expedition," said John Buckley, press secretary to Republican Congressman Jack Kemp. Dukakis also will not sign a waiver. Three others -- Republican Alexander Haig and Democratic Senators Joseph Biden and Albert Gore Jr. -- are undecided...
HOSPITALIZED. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., 72, son of the 32nd President and Democratic Congressman representing New York's 20th District from 1949 to 1954; in critical but improving condition following surgery after he, Wife Linda, 47, and Son Jack, 9, were thrown from a horse-drawn cart on their farm in Millbrook, N.Y.; in Poughkeepsie...