Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some bigwig at Warner Bros. must have been traumatized by a move to the 'burbs; Funny Farm is Warner's third comedy in a year to deal with New Yorkers who find angst in New England. (Another film, Moving, exiled Richard Pryor from New Jersey to darkest Idaho.) But The Witches of Eastwick and Beetlejuice had infernal satire in mind and an intelligent eye for the grotesque. Funny Farm is mostly just a country store stocked with stale notions and antique gags: Mr. Bland Builds His Dream House...
...major effect of earmarking is not financial but political: it builds constituencies who help sell new taxes and programs. In New Jersey, voters rejected casino gambling in 1974 but approved it two years later when it was limited to Atlantic City and when its tax revenues were pledged to help the disabled and senior citizens...
Next year, he'll be holding a stethoscope, not a lacrosse stick. He'll be wearing a white gown, not a Crimson jersey...
Bush's primary victories were as secure ascould be. But because his campaign was nearingfederal spending limits, he mounted only ashoestring effort in New Jersey and California,possibly placing himself at a disadvantage in twoimportant battleground states in the fallcampaign...
Before he was elected president, Woodrow Wilsonbecame famous as the president of Princeton andthe governor of New Jersey. But he grew up asTommy Wilson in Virginia. Though he left theSouth, the South never left him. He was once askedin his later years about his attachment to aregion in which he had not lived for decades. "Inthe South," he replied, "nothing has to beexplained...