Word: pete
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This is nostalgia with the blinkers off. It understands that in family life everything is complicated, even a grown child's hatred for the ogre who sired him. The father here (Pete Postlethwaite) is a man capable of tenderness but more comfortable as the patriarchal tyrant. He refuses to share a drink with his son (Dean Williams) or a farewell with his daughter Eileen (Angela Walsh). He beats daughter Maisie (Lorraine Ashbourne) for wanting to go to a dance, and flogs his wife (Freda Dowie), stifling even her sobs with barked threats to "Shut up!" It is a brutality...
Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini and Republicans Jesse Helms, Alfonse D'Amato and Pete Wilson urged George Bush and Baker to name Von Raab drug czar or at least reward him with an ambassadorship. They were rebuffed. But Von Raab's highly public parting shots may soon give Bush reason to wish he had kept his audacious Customs commissioner inside the tent...
...long history of public opposition to betting on games, and its commissioner, Pete Rozelle, sent a letter to the Oregon governor, stating his objections to that state's gambling plan. Jim Heffernan, the league's spokesperson, says that it would not be surprising if the NFL took similar actions if Massachusetts appeared close to adopting a state-wide betting scheme...
...Yeah, just another victim. That's exactly what's going to happen to Pete Rose...
...presumably unintentionally--conveys a message that Blacks are gifted with greater athletic ability and can be lazy about developing their talents, while whites, who are smarter, have to work harder to improve. It is the same distinction that is used when people compare Larry Bird and Michael Jordan, Pete Rose and Willie Mays...