Word: reade
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accurate. When I went to eat at a Chinese restaurant before going to see Frank Chin's play The Year of the Dragon, I never thought the horoscope on the placemat would have anything to do with the play. But I was wrong. "Full of vitality and enthusiasm," it read, "the Dragon is a popular individual even with the reputation of being a `big mouth' at times...
...purple-skinned polygamist and a rich Manhattan heiress. Her story of a reformed cannibal, Mgungu Yabba Mgungu, a native of the South Pacific island of New Burnt Norton, who visits New York City and finds a wife is pretentious, irritating and--worst of all--just plain boring to read...
Reinhold, a former film actor and star of Beverly Hills Cop and Beverly Hills Cop II, plans to emphasize the fact that he has no known views on any subject, controversial or not. Although he has never read the Constitution, he did pay careful attention to Peter Jennings' three-hour special on ABC. In addition, he's the sort of wacky guy who might make the dour Justice Marshall bust a gut now and then...
House Speaker Jim Wright, (D-Tx.), told reporters he had read the executive summary of the report and believes that it is a "straight, honest, forthright declaration of the facts...
...congressional investigators expect their probe to tie up some of the loose connections of the Iran-contra affair. Hull greatly admired former National Security Council Aide Oliver North, the contras' aggressive champion. When North's associate Robert Owen appeared before Congress's Iran-contra committees last spring, he read a treacly ode to the Marine colonel penned by none other than John Hull. The contras gain sustenance, the poem read, from the "knowledge that on this troubled earth there still walk men like Ollie North . . . In our lifetime, you have given us the legend...