Word: pleasingness
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David Ogden Stiers, the stodgy Harvard grad in MASH, is Lane's father in this ill-starred effort, which, along with Creator makes two outrageously bad movies in a row for this former TV actor looking for work. Like other teen parents in film, the Meyers are portrayed as pathetic...
House's pleasing style owes much to Kidder's muted perceptions of how counterculture values adjust to the financial and emotional demands of running a business. Rawn is a "contextualist" who forsakes the intrusive shapes of modernism for structures that blend with a community's character and history. The Souweine...
Pinkham began selling her 'medicine' in 1873, winning satisfied customers with such crowd-pleasing ingredients as black cohosh, true and false unicorn, liferoot plant, dandelion, and the ever-popular pleurisy root--with a whopping dose of alcohol thrown in "purely as a solvent."
Proponents of the line-item veto argue persuasively that only the President completely represents the national interest. Congress, they note, has on more than one occasion produced a budget bristling with a hodge-podge of local and special interest-pleasing items. No dispute so far. But will the proposed solution...
If he wishes, the President can use the line-item veto as a tool for rewarding, or as a weapon for punishing, individual congressmen. Used in this way, it can actually increase government spending. Congressmen have traditionally attached district-pleasing pork barrel to major spending legislation to protect their pet...