Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Puget Sound. But it is Cleveland's proposed new Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that really gets the Jersey Devil's juices flowing. "If I have a dream commission, it is to design the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame," says Badanes, mocking the manner of a politician at a press conference. His colleagues give him a rousing round of applause. "I mean, could you imagine a better job? We could do the walls in black pressed vinyl. And there'd be a lot of black-light posters around everywhere. Of course, we'd have to listen to records...
...know I really liked Flynn. He seemed like a smart guy, like us. But, he's becoming just a typical politician, stickin' his nose in where it don't belong, trying to get some attention...
...little more than two years ago, when Indians voted the Congress Party into office by a landslide. The vote was a show of confidence in Gandhi only seven weeks after his mother, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by Sikh bodyguards. Gandhi cultivated an image as a young, honest politician who was determined to modernize the economy and clean up the Congress Party, whose members he said in 1985 "follow no principle of public morality." Today, none of those goals has been fulfilled, and Gandhi seems to have lost his golden electioneering touch. He made four campaign swings in March...
Unlike a certain fellow actor turned politician, Eastwood has had a pretty good year. Of course, the scale of his achievements is a tad more modest. Eastwood pushed for a new parking lot to ease congestion during the annual plague of tourists, and he has allowed a local shop to sell ice-cream cones, a commodity the previous regime restricted. Says Mike Lajigian, who owns Chocolate Dreams and dispenses 22 flavors at $1.50 and up: "He's cut through the bureaucracy and still maintained the integrity of the village...
Willy Brandt, who served as West German Chancellor from 1969 to 1974, has always enjoyed a reputation as a moody, unpredictable politician. He lived up to that billing last week when he abruptly quit his post as chairman of the Social Democratic Party. A stone-faced Brandt informed his colleagues he was resigning his position because of the "internal criticisms" of his leadership...