Word: meannesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arena and began to weep, actually to bawl, a cold kind of crying that carried for a distance. He was a primitive again. As the U.S. boxing team trooped through the airport after the trials, a woman mistakenly directed her good wishes to the alternate, Tyson. "She must mean good luck on the flight," said the superheavyweight Tyrell Biggs, a future Tyson opponent who would rue his joke...
...mean you could have taken your hand out of that handcuff at any time?" an incredulous Eddie asks Roger after the rabbit slips his shackles. "Not at any time," comes the retort. "Only when it was funny." Such are the Toontown laws of physics; they do not always apply to this movie. Every framed frame is beguiling, as befits a pioneering project made by Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future) and ace Animator Richard Williams. But not all the gags -- even those quoted from such Bugs Bunny classics as Falling Hare and Rabbit Seasoning -- have the limber...
...uncertain outcome, not the usual unanimous show of party cards. Many delegates are convinced that the conference will decide not only the future of perestroika but also the very course of world Communism. "If conservative forces manage to cut short our revolutionary perestroika and throw us backward, it would mean the moral death and destruction of our party, the party of Lenin," wrote Playwright Alexander Gelman, a Gorbachev supporter. If the conference fails, Gelman warned, "society would be led down the ((democratic)) path not by our party but by some other political force, which would emerge from the people...
...that many of the consultants bought inside information from former cronies who still hold Pentagon procurement jobs. Then they sold their secrets to defense contractors at higher prices. Relative to ( the value of the contracts, the cost to the firms was minuscule. "A few bucks for a bribe can mean millions to companies," explained South Carolina Congressman John Spratt, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee...
...larger issues, Dukakis knows that satisfying Jackson would mean alienating many voters. For instance, Jackson argues for tax increases on the affluent and a significant reduction of Pentagon resources. As Dukakis fends off Republican charges that he is a tax-loving liberal dove, he can hardly embrace those ideas. Nor can he court Jackson too ardently without looking weak or Mondale-like...