Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When I left Seattle I was desperately in love with a girl named Christina. Our relationship was showing the first signs of going ballistic when I left for Harvard. As time wore on it began to bear a distinct resemblance to a Six Flags roller coaster ride, complete with loop the loops and reality-defying twists and turns...
...Cyprus in the event that the Pan Am jet was flown there. Vice Admiral John Poindexter, the National Security Adviser, telephoned news of the hijacking to President Reagan at his ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains just as the Reagans were about to set out on their daily horseback ride. Later the White House released a statement declaring, "Nothing can justify such barbarism. We can think of no punishment too severe for the criminals responsible." In an address at Harvard University, Secretary of State George Shultz lamented that "the day has not yet arrived when terrorism has taken its place...
...travels to see the friendlies in Israel, Jordan and Egypt. The press was driven to analyzing not what the trip accomplished but whether it had any content at all. It was the White House that staged and stamped it as news and the press that went along for the ride. The networks, eager to give an air of importance to the summer lull, are all too willing to play along with staged news, and thus share a complicity. President Reagan now has big-league competition in the creation of news, non-news and is-it-or-isn't-it news...
...athletics director, Frank Rienzo. "Should there be a distinction as to who should be tested and who should not be?" Argues Duke Law Professor Weistart: "Colleges could never get away with testing the entire student body. But because there is no single party representing student athletes, the N.C.A.A. can ride roughshod over their civil liberties. It's a patent invasion of privacy...
Mexico, 1916. After a gang of bandits terrorizes the village of Santa Poco, a lovely senorita telegraphs three cowboy heroes she saw in a movie. To the rescue ride "Lucky Day" (Steve Martin), "Dusty Bottoms" (Chevy Chase) and "Ned Nederlander" (Martin Short), three bumbling actors who have just been fired by their Hollywood studio. They think they have been invited south of the border to sing, not shoot, but in the end they rally the villagers to throw out the desperadoes. The Magnificent Seven it is not; it is The Three Amigos, a comedy adventure due for Christmas that also...