Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...huge cast of good actors, James Woods stands out as steely Bob Haldeman, and Joan Allen suggests in deft brush strokes a Pat Nixon condemned to stand by her ungiving man. Hopkins, though, is a failure. He finds neither the timber of Nixon's plummy baritone, with its wonderfully false attempts at intimacy, nor the stature of a career climber who, with raw hands, scaled the mountain and was still not high or big enough...
...moderate pillar of the Senate for 30 years, announced he will retire next year, the 11th Senator to do so. Reports circulated at week's end that Wyoming Republican Alan Simpson, one of the Senate's crustier members, may soon become the 12th. In the House, Colorado Democrat Pat Schroeder, the most senior woman in the chamber and one of its most influential feminists, said she would also step down, as did Kansas Republican Jan Meyers, the only woman to chair a full House committee. For his part, Speaker Newt Gingrich announced that he would not seek the Oval Office...
Beyond the obvious advice, however, we find theories on individuals' motivations that can hurt just as much as they might help. What happens with the reader who doesn't recognize the limited nature of this literature? These pat explanations can then create biases and place limitations on how an individual views and listens to the opposite sex. After hearing a few words of explanation, we can already picture the corresponding text and pigeonhole the problem regardless of the real situation. People jump to conclusions and assume they understand what is going on simply because they read about...
...pat answer--to "reassure all those people that have loved me and supported me ... that I'd never let them down. This is a priority, along with my children"--may contain some truth. Diana, who admits she probably won't be Queen, may be maneuvering to promote young Prince William and protect her access to him. Since no one likes to see a devoted parent denied her children, there's little the palace can do except tolerate her as mother to the future King. As for her desire to be "queen of people's hearts," it looks...
...Pat Buchanan's campaign beat the sun to the New Hampshire secretary of state's office, arriving at 5 a.m. this morning to file for the leadoff primary. "New Hampshire is going to be the breakthrough state for the Buchanan campaign," the candidate declared after paying the requisite $1,000 filing fee. Candidates have two weeks to file for the February 20 vote, but the Buchananites weren't shivering in the cold alone. Close behind was seven-time candidate Billy Joe Clegg, a Mississippi minister, followed by "The Hemp Lady," Caroline Killeen of Flagstaff, Arizona, whose platform centerpiece is reforming...