Word: patricks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...load. Driscoll, however, saw the move as an attempt to curtail his responsibility. Two weeks ago, Driscoll repeated to Taylor his plans to leave. The publisher, convinced that Driscoll was more indispensable to the Globe than was Janeway, spent a restless four days deciding what to do. By St. Patrick's Day, Taylor's mind was made...
Sporting a shamrock in his lapel, Ronald Reagan was about to get his hair cut in the White House basement when he took time to talk to Washington Contributing Editor Hugh Sidey. As the subject turned to Nicaragua, the President's St. Patrick's Day cheer evaporated and he became unusually intense and passionate. Excerpts from the interview...
Last week's rebuff was merely a "lost battle in a war we're going to win," declared White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan. "We will never give up," vowed the President as he posed for photographers with three contra leaders who had flown to Washington to plead with legislators on Capitol Hill. He held up a button that read IF YOU LIKE CUBA, YOU'LL LOVE NICARAGUA...
...high school life, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, is nearly as lame. The problems start with the casting. As Spicoli, the spaced-out surfer played hilariously in the film by Sean Penn, Dean Cameron projects nothing more than a 5-o'clock shadow; a baby-faced Sean Penn lookalike, Patrick Dempsey, plays Damone, the school's cool con artist. Bummer...
Indeed he does. Reaction was so intense that the Oregon Senator's colleagues urged him to back off. New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan deplored the idea because it would levy the tax retroactively on bondholders who had bought securities under the assumption that they would be tax exempt. Minnesota Senator David Durenberger circulated a letter signed by himself and nine other Senators on the 20-member Finance Committee decrying the "devastating impact" of Packwood's provision...