Word: libbing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place of women. While the Episcopal Church in the U.S. and Anglicans in Canada and New Zealand have ordained 1,257 women priests since the 1970s, much of Anglicanism is not ready for that step and refuses to recognize the ordained women. Such an encroachment of women's lib upon church doctrine is positively "satanic," declared a bishop from Melanesia, where women do not even dine with...
...Monroe jail every Friday night and leave Monday morning." Finally, at about age 17, Randy got busted for breaking and entering. Looking at five years in prison, he had some luck. In his more respectable moments, he had hooked up with a woman named Lib Hatcher, who ran a club in Charlotte called Country City U.S.A. She gave him a job, stood up for him in court, and the judge let Randy go with a warning: "Son, if you come back to my courtroom, bring your toothbrush...
...Lib and Randy shared a few things in common, including, it is often suggested, a strong romantic entanglement. "It is a great partnership" is as far as Randy will go to characterize the relationship. But Hatcher, fortyish, is as close to her boy now as she was way back in 1978, when she put up $10,000 for his first two singles, released by a local label out of Shreveport, La. They also shared a strong sense of Randy's destiny and in 1981 were already making the rounds and plugging songs in Nashville. Finally, in 1985, a Warner Bros...
GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM In Saigon, 1965, the war sneaks up on Disk Jockey Robin Williams, darkening and then silencing his mad-lib monologues. This high comedy from Director Barry Levinson is 1987's deftest evocation of Viet Nam's surrealism...
...show's anchor is clearly Adam Albion. His Mortimer rivals Cary Grant's in the number of double-takes per minute. During the performance I saw, he was in such control of both his character and the show that he was able to ad lib a joke about Princeton that even the many Princetonians in the audience must have laughed...