Word: nixon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Falwell told reporters that he had long admired Marcos's benevolent rule. "This man has done more for freedom than Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew combined," he said while touring one of beautiful Manila's many prisons. When inmates at the correctional facility refused gifts of his newest album, "Falling Dominoes," Falwell attributed it to the international Communist conspiracy. But, he said, it was nothing to worry about. "Sure, there are troublemakers here, but we have them in the United States...
...well as in presentation, are collected under three headings. Part I, "Seeing Signs," initiates one into the underworld of hidden meanings, exposing the rampant process of fabrication in which symbols are manipulated to guide mass ideology. In "Strategies of Lying," Umberto Eco performs a structural operation to demonstrate how Nixon's image-making speeches were variations on the same mythic elements composing Little Red Riding Hood. Michel de Certeau's "The Jabbering, of Social Life" reduces politics to a social organ polluting the environment with mindless dogma. The heralding of the Reagan Age is also blamed on a carefully-devised...
Business, while booming, is erratic. Many customers come in just to browse the collection of masks, from glow-in-the-dark skeletons to celebrity wrestlers to Richard Nixon. "You wouldn't believe how many people come in here, try on 97 different masks, and buy one $1.79 set of vampire teeth," Freed said...
...technology is a force more irresistible than Ozzie Smith and George Brett put together, even weekend World Series games begin after sundown now, and the umpires are in such a turmoil over working conditions, hectored as they are by television's instant replays, that they have turned to Richard Nixon...
...former President, father-in-law of a former statistician for the + Washington Senators, a former team, was appointed the arbitrator last week in the matter of the overextended playoffs. The league championship series were more than the umpires had bargained for. Nixon played football at Whittier College, but he has been around the language of hardball most of his life. "That was not my ball park. That was their ball park," Team Player John Mitchell once replied when asked about secret campaign funds. "In this Cabinet," Nixon observed, "you win some and you lose some." And some are rained...