Word: patly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Pat Beyer, a pharmacy clerk in San Francisco, is in even worse condition. Her octogenarian parents' life savings of $30,000 were devoured before her father's four-year battle with cancer and a heart condition ended in his death on Christmas day. She is still responsible for her mother, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. "Now I am having to dip into my own savings, and I will probably have to go through all of it," says Beyer. "I have been to every agency to ask for help. I am bitter, but I try to take...
...promise, and The Morning After fails to fulfill it. Jane Fonda is, to be sure, awfully good as Alex Sternbergen, a near-miss movie star now trying to drink her leftover life away. She has the style of such women, a mixture of tough talk and flighty vulnerability, down pat. The stranger who tries to help her is an ex-cop with a blue-collar manner. Underneath, however, he glows with the middle-class spirit of the New Man: he is wise, patient, a good lover and a better cook. As played by Jeff Bridges, he is also a total...
...preaches at least once a month in various houses of worship, mainly in the area around suburban Riverside, Ill., where he lives with his second wife Harriet, a voice coach. Ever quotable, he is constantly sought by reporters looking for quick bursts of wisdom on subjects ranging from Pat Robertson's presidential campaign to baby boomers. Marty writes a column for the Christian Century, the liberal Protestant weekly. He also decides what books the Century reviews and writes for numerous other journals. A self-confessed magazine junkie, he receives 250 periodicals and culls them for a fortnightly newsletter...
...funniest guy I played with was a Harvard grad, Pat McInally ['75]," says Moore. "He'd do anything for a laugh--once Pat walked in to roll call with nothing on but a belt...
Asked if the communications director had been asked to "tone down" his remarks, Speakes said, "I haven't heard the president express his views... the president knows Pat as a man of conviction and that Pat's only motive here is to encourage people to speak up for the president...