Word: lied
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Biloxi. The Bush entourage is running an atypical 15 minutes late. The weather is oyster-gray, and the turnout at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum is only fair. Dozens of Bush signs provided by the campaign lie unused on the ground. Some campaign officials wanted to stage the rally indoors, but Lanny Griffith, the Southern coordinator, insisted on palm trees and the gulf as the appropriate TV backdrop. Bush has only an outline to speak from, and his off-the-cuff remarks are off the mark: "I know I have the commitment of the innate honesty and decency of the United...
...Harvard supports the racist lie of apartheid while they write 'Veritas' all over every podium and every chair. That's a disgrace," Benz said...
...drawbacks in the Winthrop production of The Real Thing lie primarily with the script, a script which ironically won a Tony Award in 1982 when it hit New York. Though the play is contemporary and fast-paced, Stoppard relies too much on his wit and hardly carries his play beyond a well-ornamented series of love triangles. It may be thought-provoking, but with characters who scare each other with the first sound they make, it cannot be moving...
Much of the prejudice stems from the fact that Dudley has never been officially a residential house and therefore was not completely integrated into College life. Differences lie in participation in intramural athletics, social events and extracurriculars, Jewett says. Dudley traditionally does worse than the residential houses in intramurals, primarily because it often cannot field full teams in all the events...
Chris Cabot as the Ballplayer (who is supposed to be Monroe's real-life husband Joe DiMaggio), has a menacing physical presence. Cabot plays up the stereotype of the dumb jock, but amidst all the gumcracking lie some very clever lines. Granted, he does stupid things, like calling Freud "Floyd." But his stupidity makes him an even more affable character. He's the only one in this clan that doesn't take all of this "smart talk" seriously...