Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Minneapolis TV interview, Reagan was less reassuring about his deficit projections. "We don't know what we're talking about," he said in a remark reminiscent of Budget Director David Stockman's infamous confessions, "nor does anyone else who tells you they're projecting deficits five years in advance...
...dutifully listening to the stewardess telling him to fasten his seat belt and saying something about the "no smoking sign." So our man relaxed with the others, some of whom would owe their lives to him. Perhaps he started to read, or to doze, or to regret some harsh remark made in the office that morning. Then suddenly he knew that the trip would not be ordinary. Like every other person on that flight, he was desperate to live, which makes his final act so stunning...
Binder did note one fault in his client: "He could be in a little better physical shape." Williams, who is 5-ft. 7-in., 160 lbs. and appears pudgy, grinned at the remark. The point was pertinent: the prosecution suggested that Williams hoisted both of the victims, Nathaniel Cater, 27 (146 Ibs.), and Jimmy Ray Payne, 21 (138 Ibs.), over a 4-ft. wall on the James Jackson Parkway Bridge and threw their bodies into the Chattahoochee River. The defense insists that Williams was not strong enough to do this...
...Brando's remark testifies to Odets's incredible success in capturing the Zeitgeist of the 1930s, it also gives a hint of tragic flaws buried beneath the success. Although Odets would live and write well into the early 1960s, he strived, unsuccessfully, to break out of the role of spokesman for a decade that was over before he had turned...
...physiological age is sixty-three. Mentally and socially, I feel no older than when I was fifty, and as to my emotional age discretion forbids my calculating that here." (Anyone in doubt should note that Bernays danced until three a.m. at last year's Hasty Pudding Ball, only to remark with childlike enthusiasm, "What's next...