Word: pal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people saying that a fleshy, overbearing auto executive should be President of the U.S.? What accounts for the rampant Iacoccamania? There are many reasons, if no pat explanation. He is powerful, a VIP, yet his bullish candor reminds people of a pal at the local tavern who calls 'em as he sees 'em. He is feisty and anti-Establishment, but his patriotism makes that posture seem safe and red-blooded. Partly, his popularity is a function of the times: two-fisted capitalism is in vogue. After a long period of feeling cranky and skeptical, the country seems in the mood...
DIED. Rudd Weatherwax, 77, flamboyant owner and trainer of the original Lassie and six subsequent Wonder Dogs; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. In 1940 he and his brother Frank took on an unwanted collie named Pal, which was selected first as a stand-in and then as star of Lassie Come Home (1943). Weatherwax also trained Asta for the Thin Man movies and Daisy for the Blondie series. Devoted to his charges, he kept the cremated remains of bygone Lassies, once vowing, "When I finally go, I'm gonna take those urns and bury them with...
...delays the plane with a phony bomb scare: "I always do it when I'm running late. They grill the latecomers but not if you're first-class. It's not economical." A Los Angeles housewife interrupts Self and a prostitute in a parked car with "Hurry it up, pal. You're in my drive...
...event was not only made for TV but marketed over ABC for the tidy sum of $2.2 million, about a fifth of the Inaugural bash's entire cost. Saturday evening's gala for the President, featuring longtime Reagan Pal Frank Sinatra as master of ceremonies, was broadcast in edited form an hour after the live presentation at Washington's Convention Center...
...most infectious Top Ten hits, Blue Jean, but the album has taken some hard knocks for being less a fresh direction than a kind of holding pattern that is good for dancing. Indeed, several of the songs are vintage items from the portfolio of Bowie's pal Iggy Pop; one is a nifty old Leiber and Stoller tune; and another is an unlikely remake of Brian Wilson and Tony Asher's Beach Boys classic God Only Knows, on which Bowie starts out sounding like Bing Crosby crooning from deep inside Plato's cave. But underneath...