Word: mold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...usually were written by others. Can Cronkite's replacement, Dan Rather, with that four-square forthrightness of his, and his adrenalized ambition, keep the loyalty of those accustomed to Cronkite's businesslike, low-key delivery? Or will NBC's John Chancellor, another in the trusty Cronkite mold, steal away some of CBS's audience? Will ABC news, which tried to de-emphasize the anchorman and gambled on hi-tech flashiness instead, be able to lift itself out of third place? The air is full of expensive uncertainty...
Shannon--played as the stoic strong man in the Sly Stallone mold by Chris Walken--pretends he is in Zangaro to photograph birds. The ruler's men may be brutish, but they're no dummies, and Shannon gets the bejesus kicked out of him before he is deported. Back in New York, multinational enterprise knocks on his door again, this time to ask if he might not enjoy returning to Zangaro and overthrowing the government. And, of course, replacing it with a regime equally bad but tied more closely to the free world's engines of capitalist progress...
...accomplishments, though, Suárez failed in one democratic essential: he was unable to mold a coherent political party out of the disparate centrist and conservative groupings that made up his Union of the Democratic Center (U.C.D.). Last week, fed up with relentless sniping within his party, Suárez, 48, acted with uncharacteristic boldness and resigned his posts both as head of the government and party leader...
That little monster appears to have grown into Trevor's newest menace, Francis Tyte, 33, a bit-part actor, pathological dissembler, bigamist and homosexual prostitute. Tyte's face, lean and handsome in the Leslie Howard mold, is known to millions of British telly viewers. He is the fellow in the tobacco ad who nonchalantly puffs a pipe while military officers strut by, sniffing...
...like bowling, with the club members rolling the balls and then watching to see what's left standing. Clubs like the Porcellian have never been overly fond of the idea of admitting anybody who is not white, male, preppie and Protestant, and few of those out of the standard mold have made it through the rounds. Things have changed during the last decade however, and the Porc can now point to its first non-white (Asian-American) member...