Word: nose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Koch is the elective shoo-in that he appears, however, it is not only because of what people know and see about him, but what they guess about him as well. New Yorkers know that Koch seems a hard-nose. What they guess about him is that he is not the hard-nose he seems, that he is in stead a quite naive man who may have toughened up because of various treacheries and disappointments, but who remains fundamentally naive nonetheless. It is said of Koch that he trusts others too little. It is more likely that he has trusted...
...more than he seems to notice the plaque located on the sidewalk in front of city hall: "In this place 24 March 1900, Hon. Robert Van Wyck made the first excavation for the underground railway"?the onset of one of the mayor's great headaches commemorated under his nose...
...most controversial feature of the bill would permit banks or bank holding companies to take over weak thrift institutions. For that reason the bill is opposed by the U.S. League of Savings Associations, a lobbying group for the thrifts. Says a league spokesman: "It is the camel's nose in the tent that would lead to eventual interstate branching and interindustry combinations...
...cruiser U.S.S. Ticonderoga at the Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. Said she: "All I could think of was 'Lord, I am going to go down in history with Mrs. Truman!' " First Lady Bess Truman had struck out when she tried to crack a champagne bottle against the nose of the C-54 U.S. Capitol in 1945. Though that plane got no kicks from champagne, this ship did. Nancy, a righty (natch), uncorked a swing with enough brut force to christen not only the Ticonderoga, but herself and a few onlookers. The scouting report on Mrs. Reagan: a good...
...splendid chase sequence. The rest is strained silliness. Good Guy Connery knows that Bad Guy Peter Boyle is out to kill him, but instead of gunning him down, Connery waits till the end of the movie to wreak his vengeance-by socking Boyle in the nose. Maybe that's how disputes will be settled on the cold moons of Jupiter, but Hyams might have delivered a stronger jolt to the audience if he had dared to follow the tone suggested by his title...