Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slightly more butch companion. Lane is wildly endearing: a tempestuous wife, a doting mother and every inch the great lady. The film gets less comic mileage, but more political kick, from the right-wing politician (Hackman) who is the butt of the film's genial jokes. He might be Pat Robertson or Pat Buchanan on a bad day. In the mistaken-identity dinner party that serves as the film's third act, it is his function to be enlightened--not to forgive the gay couple for any crime against nature but to realize that charm and devotion have their place...
...With Pat Buchanan sucking up all the available oxygen on social issues, the President made a grab for two last week--issuing a six-page manual urging public schools to adopt uniforms, and shaming network execs into labeling their programs. As a child in parochial school, I loved the savings in time and fashion anxiety a uniform made possible. The first candidate to issue a similar manual for adults gets my vote. There is a downside: offending not only the A.C.L.U. but also parents who think a $100 Polo sweater makes up for being distracted. Some teachers say it doesn...
CANDIDATE PAT BUCHANAN...
Think of what would happen, for instance, if an alien from another planet approached Pat Buchanan with abduction in mind. After all, Pat Buchanan believes that all aliens are from another planet...
Reporters shout out questions: "How do you know the alien's name was Epstein, Pat? Did he talk? Do all extraterrestrials have Jewish names...