Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WRONGFULLY ACCUSED (Aug. 7). Geezers can be goofs too. Leslie Nielsen reunites with Pat Proft (who also worked on Naked Gun), for a parody of 63 recent crime thrillers. Fine, but aren't those films their own insidious parodies? And didn't Fatal Instinct send up the genre back...
...very serious--Graves' Disease--and it can be, but it is rarely life-threatening, especially when diagnosed early. More than one million Americans suffer from the disease, among them former President George Bush, First Lady Barbara Bush, two-time Olympic gold medalist Gail Devers and women's golf champion Pat Bradley. As this small sample indicates, Graves' Disease tends to manifest itself in very active and energetic individuals. In fact, as journalists speculated in the aftermath of the Gulf War, President Bush's Graves' Disease may have been precipitated by the stresses of a new presidency and an escalating international...
...Uganda. Conservative Robert Novak is upset not just because America did nothing wrong, but because in his warped view, slavery was something right. After noting some prominent black Americans, Novak arrogantly said that "if it hadn't been for slavery, they wouldn't even be in America, would they?" Pat Buchanan seems to be in denial about the horrors of slavery, remarking in his syndicated column that "America deserves better than to have Clinton romping around sub-Saharan Africa, counting cheap graces by apologizing for sins this nation never committed." What's more, Buchanan believes that since his own ancestors...
...Pat, another gang member, chimes in: "When that bullet goes into you, it hurts like nothing you've ever felt before." Says another: "It burns like hell--like fire...
When fighting erupts, Brother Bill has his routine down pat. From his Evanston home, it's a 35-min. drive to Cabrini. En route, he pulls on his robe and begins prayer. Upon arriving, he walks briskly to the scene, where the shooting has usually already begun. His pale blue robe aflutter, he stands in the center of gang gunfire. He says he can hear the crack of guns from snipers in the buildings as well as see shooters running on the ground or ducking in and out of entryways. But thoughts of his safety never cross his mind...