Word: ole
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stretcher in the ambulance heading toward Dallas Memorial, his mind struggling back to consciousness. They could shoot down ole J.R., but they couldn 't keep him down. Already his ambition leaped to newer, more dizzying heights. The country needed a strong leader-why not a nearly martyred oil tycoon? As President, he'd send Bobby to beat some sense into that Ayatullah fella. Spread some Bs around the Kremlin; no way those old Russkies could resist the sight of Pam in a bathing suit. Inflation, recession, civil unrest? No problem at all in a Ewing dictatorship-at least...
...most glaring case was Saudi Industrialist Ghaith Pharaon's ploy to hook up with the Georgia good-ole-boy network. The Saudi financier bought from President Carter's former Budget Director and confidant Bert Lance most of his shares in the National Bank of Georgia for $2.4 million, a price far above the market value; other Arab moneymen reportedly arranged a loan for Lance of about $3.5 million. In another case, a group of Arabs, led by a shadowy sheik named Kamal Adham, the former chief of Saudi internal intelligence, touched off a confusing imbroglio in Washington...
Halfway through Roadie, some earnest environmentalists get a court injunction to block a rock concert, claiming the amplified music wastes energy. "Hell," shouts one good ole boy, "don't they know that rock 'n' roll puts more energy into the air than it takes out of the ground?" Energy is the operative word in rock, and in three new rock movies. But The Blues Brothers, Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi's elephantine expansion of their Saturday Night Live routine, expends that energy on simple aggression. Can't Stop the Music, which charts the fabled rise...
Moya Olsen Lear, now chairman of Lear Avia, is the inventor's fourth wife and the mother of four of his seven children. She was introduced to Lear by her father, Ole Olsen, who was half of the Olsen and Johnson comedy team. Despite Lear's well-known womanizing, they stayed married for 36 years. Moya concentrated on her needlepoint and listened to Lear's descriptions of his latest inventions. Once she stitched the names of her husband's girlfriends and presented the needlepoint to him in a frame. One name was in purple because...
Humbug to all these highfalutin scientific explanations of the eruption! With all the pollution we've caused, the good ole earth just plain vomited...