Word: patly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...look at them standing up for their diplomas. Their parents and teachers come along and pat them on the head as if they were good little puppies who've learned to take orders...
...theater chain by RCA Founder David Sarnoff and Joseph P. Kennedy, tiny RKO became the studio mouse that roared like MGM's lion. RKO produced the first Technicolor feature, Becky Sharp, starring Frances Dee, now 74 (and in a bit part, a then unknown 23-year-old actress, Pat Ryan, later Pat Nixon), Citizen Kane and the nine best Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers pictures. Last week the final vestiges of the studio-30 years' worth of scripts, musical scores and papers-were donated to the film archives of the University of California at Los Angeles. The presentation...
...full terms. That is disquieting. Assassinations and forced retirements inject an odd sense of foreboding into presidential politics. There is the ghost of a thought that Americans are growing so impatient and unleadable that they insist on ritually disposing of the President every four years or less. The pat tern need not be inevitable, but in moments of depression, Americans may imagine that the procession of somehow foreshortened presidential terms makes the U.S. like the late Roman Empire: an ungovernable mess with a short attention span, restlessly chucking its leaders...
Showtime and for Valle, a come showy easily to man, was a pitty-pat exercise in which Cooney fended off the trainer's slapping hands to the tempo of the spectators' building applause. Cooney is devoted to Valle. When he appears, Cooney exclaims: "There's my man!" Says Valle when he hears this: "Boy, that puts strength in me to teach this kid." Valle's task may be more awesome than Cooney's: going up against Holmes' wise old trainers Arcel and Eddie Futch...
...really regret the fact that the AIAW couldn't survive the NCAA's presence in women's athletics, because I still question the sincerity of the NCAA's commitment to women's sports programs." Assistant Director of Athletics Pat Miller said after the AIAW announced its demise...