Word: pal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, one Democrat who crashed the party courtesy of a GOP pal said that "actually, we think it's a shame. We don't agree with his policies," said Angela B. Nahl '85. Her companion, David E. Ruiz '83-5, said, "I was hoping that Mondale would win, and we could celebrate in front of a lot of Republicans...
...founding member of New York's Bonanno crime family and his uncle Giovanni was one of the family's leading underbosses. Bonventre was impatient; so when he tired of the construction job his "family" had found for him, he sought and got something better. He and his pal Baldassare Amato were taken on as bodyguards for Bonanno Consigliere (counselor) Carmine Galante...
...there is little collegiality. "It's not like you walk into a room and four of them are laughing together about a baseball game," says a former law clerk for Brennan. "They walk to conference arm in arm, but during the week they don't pal around together." Justice Lewis Powell calls the Brethren "nine one-man law firms." Says Blackmun: "There is very little humor...
...used as a populist club to pulverize the old elitist verities: grace, wit, precision, proportion, coherence. No walking of the fine narrative line for the apostles of anarchy, whose police-siren song goes like this: Wake up, pal! Get out of your fusty drawing room and hit the streets! The Aristotelian unities are dead! Modern life is chaos, and this time around, art is life set to a whomping backbeat that never lets up. When society has fallen apart, don't pick up the pieces, just admire them where they fall...
...with Nancy Reagan. The two are constantly on the phone, going over events of the day, measuring future dangers, sizing up the performance of Administration players, even the President himself. Reagan sometimes needles Deaver about the amount of time the two spend talking, referring to Nancy as "your phone pal." There is little action and intrigue around the White House that the pair does not know about. Says one longtime friend: "They're so alike in many ways, both suspicious by nature and judgmental." Sometimes they are appalled at how trusting Reagan can be of other people...