Word: pulls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. The President will hand out the sparklers, and the nation will gaudily salute the American dream. Reagan, master illusionist, is himself a kind of American dream. Looking at his genial, crinkly face prompts a sense of wonder: How does he pull...
...part of me. The side of me that's Babe got me into a lot of trouble in school. Teachers couldn't get me to shut up. I have so much fun playing her that sometimes I get carried away. Watching myself at dailies, I realize I have to pull it down." Keaton, still the lovable tangle of insecurities she played in Annie Hall, worried at first about her Mississippi accent, and says, "Phoo" or "Oh, no, no, no" to herself when she is not pleased with a take. Her habitual air of distraction seems to manufacture comedy, even...
...president of the Bridal Marketers Association of America and owner of a large bridal chain with headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, adds it up simply. "There are fewer brides but bigger weddings," he says. "People are bringing that money out of cubbyholes. A mother with holes in her sneakers will pull $1,000 out of her brassiere and say, 'Everything is the best for my daughter.' " Barbara Ferris, 30, whose May 24 Los Angeles wedding to Steven O'Neill was followed by a reception for "300 of our most intimate friends," explains, "When it boils down to a choice between money...
...asks a familiar question--"Do you know me?"--then proceeds with a gentle spoof of his family connection: "Every time I appear on a talk show, people ask me about my father. Every time I give out an interview, people ask me about my father. Every time I pull out the American Express card, people treat me like my father. Come to think of it, that...
...playing chopsticks), and John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee fuses bebop and rap: "Go get the lady with the unusual haircut and add her to the stack. Go get Meyer and the boat and bring the boat around. Use the big anchor and the power takeoff winch to pull the Flush out of the mangroves. Cork up the Munequita and rig a pump and float her." The form has also had its share of parodies. The best was S.J. Perelman's Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer: "I shifted my two hundred pounds slightly, lazily set fire to a finger, and watched...