Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...executive officer, a position he had held since 1983. While he will remain chairman, Haggett turned over to president Duane Fitzgerald day-to-day responsibility for the company, whose work force of 10,400 makes it the largest employer in Maine. Haggett, the son of a Bath Iron Works pipe fitter, said he relinquished control because he had failed to set a strong moral example when he copied the sensitive Navy document...
...wasn't going to be this ridiculous circus animal--an abstract painter at 16, so I stopped," says Bois, whose worn pipe and sensible shoes make him look more traditional than his interests might suggest. And Bois, in some sense, adopts a conservative approach to a less-than-classical field: he's somewhat suspicious of theory "with a capital T," as he puts...
...humor but never in a way that undercuts the deadly drive of the narrative. And he is as sadly witty about individuals as about their troubled nation. Here is Kramer in The Song Dog, surveying the wares at a rundown country store: "On the crowded shelf of cigarettes and pipe tobacco, he saw, for the first time in years, the little cotton bags of shag his father had smoked to excess, so crude it came complete with tobacco stalks. Good stuff, that shag: it had given the old bastard the long, lingering, thoroughly horrible death he'd deserved." Nothing more...
...someone had put a match to a leaking gas pipe. With the disclosure of B.C.C.I.'s "black network" around the world came an explosion of new charges and political recriminations that seem likely to go on for months. The question of the hour: Why had so many countries done so little for so long to rein in the Bank of Credit & Commerce International when, as is now evident, so many were aware of the bank's nefarious operations...
...action, at which point you wish you'd never heard of it. The TV family members are portrayed so broadly that they go beyond parody into the realm of condescending camp. Mom offers everybody fudge and says "Oh, pooh!" when she gets upset. Dad smokes a pipe and thinks a woman's place is in the kitchen. The jokes are moronic: the '50s mom tries to use 1990s lingo with malaprop results ("My, don't you look squirrelly," she says, meaning "foxy"). And when the punkish '90s kid asks for a high five, his '50s counterpart, who wears...