Word: messe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have no doubt that Spike Lee is one of the most promising moviemakers of the last five years. School Daze is a mess, a complex failure which nevertheless demonstrates that the unusual promise of the director of She's Gotta Have It is still there...
...would have a part in the production. Darla would flutter and swoon. Alfalfa would flutter and swoon and croon in the lead part. Froggy talked like a frog. Buckwheat made the backdrop. Everything would be just fine until those rich kids from across the block showed up. They'd mess around with the scenery. Maybe they'd push Porky down and make him cry. And then they'd nab poor sweet Darla. Thank goodness faithful Buckwheat was on hand to trip one of the little villains in the Little Lord Fauntleroy suits. Even Alfalfa would get into the act, giving...
...phone mess is frustrating not only the Government but also the 14 corporations eager to snare a piece of the project, called FTS-2000, for Federal Telecommunications System. As the largest telecommunications contracting job in U.S. history, the proposed deal has attracted a Who's Who of bidders that includes AT&T, all seven local phone companies, MCI, GM/EDS, Boeing and Martin Marietta. The winning contractors will replace the old system with a showpiece network that will enable federal workers to transmit computer data, conduct video conferences at their desks, send facsimile images and even transfer funds. Says Fritz Ringling...
...point in this country where all the visions, liberal and conservative, have come and gone, and we are left standing among the quite specific and various problems that those visions either created or failed to address. No new mythic dream will clean up the mess, and no one really knows what to do about much of it. Yet we are still part of the original 200-year-old vision that saw America as a power wanting to be as good as it is great. The candidate who knows that, and who is willing to take the country problem by problem...
That dream ended abruptly with a vision of my thesis evaluation, written by Gov tutors. There was only one brief comment: "You mess with us; we mess with you. No Distinction." In the background of my dream I hear Freddy laughing...