Word: patly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...announced "unannounced" candidate, won the exit polling hands down. Democratic voters indicated that if he had been on the ^ ballot, Perot would have won 43% to Clinton's 29% and Brown's 23%. With even more anti-Establishment enthusiasm, Republicans gave Perot 52% to President Bush's 38% and Pat Buchanan's 9%. Reaching out to Perot supporters, Clinton in Los Angeles almost plaintively declared, "Listen, if you want an outsider, if you want someone who's passed a program, taken on interest groups, got a plan for the future, that's my campaign. Give us a listen." Brown...
...PREACHERS NORMALLY HAVE THEIR HANDS FULL trying to save human souls. So when televangelist Pat Robertson stepped forward last week to attempt to save the venerable soul of United Press International from bankruptcy, he prompted a flurry of questions. Just what does Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and a onetime presidential hopeful, see in the tottering wire service, which may soon be his for a paltry $6 million? Perhaps a good business deal. Or a chance to proselytize. Shortly after making his surprise bid, the savvy televangelist promised that he would not convert U.P.I. to a Christian news...
...story comes from Pat Conroy's autobiographical novel The Water Is Wide, recalling how, as a '60s burnout, he turned to teaching deprived black children on a backward island off the South Carolina coast. In the time- honored tradition of teacher-student tales, this man whom the kids call Conrack enriches not only their lives but also his own. Spurning conventional curriculum and methods, he gets his young charges to enthuse about his hero, Beethoven, and his other hero, soul singer James Brown. He instructs them to take pride in America's history and also in Africa's. Touchingly...
...first season after replacing Pat Riley, Dunleavy led the Lakers to the NBA Finals, where they lost to the Chicago Bulls...
...what passes for wit is merely the insertion of brand names or pop- culture references designed to get a rise out of the baby-boomer audience. "For a guy who knows all the words to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, you're starting to sound an awful lot like Pat Boone," says Murphy. Or: "I've been carrying this kid for longer than Bonanza was on the air." At Phil's, the wateringhole where Washington's movers and shakers supposedly mingle, the running gags about famous patrons ("I keep telling Koppel to stop bringing in that garbage") amount to little...