Word: patly
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Hoping to amplify the voices of the far right, Ellis said, the Administration could conduct a series of appointments, programs and speeches designed to raise the ire of religious fundamentalists--and Republican activists--like Rev. Pat Robertson and Rev. Jerry Falwell...
...weeks a year that he officiates at tournaments in New York, Lagos, London and various other way stations on the endless tennis circuit. He is one of the handful of salaried professionals in a field traditionally peopled with volunteers calling lines for a cold beer and a pat on the back. At Wimbledon the umpires receive about $200 a day plus meals for squinting into the near distance and making a call that could well determine if a player advances to, say, the fourth round. Trifling it's not. Those players who do advance that far earn $67,000 this...
With its semisnazzy repartee and would-be ebullience, I Love Trouble strains for the style of the grand old movies (the Thin Man capers, the Tracy-Hepburn comedies Adam's Rib and Pat and Mike, half a dozen Hitchcocks) from which it borrows plot, dialogue and ambiance. But style is a Hollywood commodity even rarer these days than a pretty woman. Films don't breeze; they wheeze. Directors aren't pastry chefs anymore; they are construction foremen. Watching I Love Trouble, you can see the erection of a new Julia Roberts statue. The monument is eye-catching but bland...
...meetings that usually draw small crowds. In Minnesota only about 1% of the state's active Republicans attended the caucuses that chose delegates for last week's convention. Ideological commitment also ensures that the troops of the Christian right work overtime for their chosen candidates. "Those who serve," televangelist Pat Robertson once told TIME, "have a tendency, ultimately, to be those who lead...
...good many voters, some candidates who have its support are playing down the connection. Though several of his regional coordinators are busy forming a Minnesota chapter of the Christian Coalition, even the hard-line Quist is careful to keep his distance. "I have never been in sympathy with Pat Robertson," he insists. To broaden his moral-issues agenda and build bridges to economic conservatives, he prefers to stress his ideas for a middle-class...