Word: posing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appreciate the minor improvement. One noted exception lies in the "National Brotherhood Week" refrain: Instead of having "Lena Horne and Sheriff Clark of Selma, Alabama, dancing cheek to cheek," he has the equally improbable duo of Rep. Gerry Studds (D-Mass) and Jerry Falwell taking up the pose...
Among the roughly 40 rowers in the elite singles race that might pose a threat, according to Parker, are Doug Hamilton, a Canadian rower and Olympic prospect for his country, and Joe Busacrne, who Wood describes as a "refugee from Yale" and who has been working out at Newell Boat House with Wood...
...suspicious hard-line left that gave him its support. The new leader likes to say, "I can work with anyone in the Labor Party who wants to win." If he succeeds in that, Kinnock has the easy charm, the pleasing personality, the political savvy and the determination to pose a threat to the Conservatives...
...story begins in Boston, nearly 60 years ago, with a high school girl. "I took all sorts of jobs to earn money," she remembers. "I was asked to pose for a statue of Spring, for a fountain." The lass obliged, in the buff. "It was lovely, beautiful. I had the perfect figure for it," she says. "I've heard it's still up there in a park some place, though I've never seen it since." The leaves of the calendar tumble to reveal the present. The young lady, now at the other end of life...
...that his fellow pilots consider him "a gung-ho type." When Annie breaks into giggles, Glenn turns to her with affection. "Oh, you agree? My own wife? Do you think I'm a Dudley Do-Right?" The pair chuckle softly, but not before Glenn strikes a mock heroic pose and delivers a few self-deprecating lines. Director Philip Kaufman, who also wrote the screenplay, admits that he has no idea if the Senator is capable of laughing at himself, but old newsreel footage of a beaming Glenn convinced him that the astronaut at least must have been "good-natured...