Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy. Of course cheap politics is all too thoroughly American; but with an issue such as drugs, where so much uncontroversial good could have been done, a scrupulous Chief Executive would have restrained his base political urges. Further, such relatively routine cases of deceit and hypocrisy--which do a nice job of warping leaders' values--serve to bridge the gap between simple political manipulation and Iran-contra affairs...
...thought it went all right for the first meet," team member Alison Townley said. "MIT and Northeastern aren't our toughest competition, but it's nice to build confidence before facing Princeton...
...sixteenth of a mile on it, collides with Tilley's car. B.B. steals Tilley's restless wife (Barbara Hershey). Tilley defenestrates his wife's clothes and assaults the intruding B.B. with eggs and tomatoes. Barry Levinson, who worked this territory with a younger ensemble in Diner, has the nice idea of making a movie about what people actually do. He also has the ingenuity to give surprising twists to the taffy of his plot. And like a best pal, he knows how to listen, to find obsessions in the sprung rhythms of everyday speech. Levinson has found the perfect cast...
...didn't nibble, though his old buddy George Plimpton was encouraging. "He suggested I could be in a little worse shape, and began pouring taller drinks and urging me to eat more fatty meals and to stay up late," Remar says. "He also thought a little stroke might be nice...
...recent congressional override of Reagan's veto of the clean-water bill suggested hearts in the right place (the public considers clean water a necessity, not a luxury, and is willing to sacrifice for it) but minds not yet tough enough to resist temptation (the bill was a nice display of logrolling...