Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dennis Barrett, in camouflage fatigues and walrus mustache, is telling about the first man he killed. "He was running toward me and I got him with 18 bullets right in the chest, brrrrrrrt! So I go over to where he went down, and he's not there. I finally find his body 50 ft. away. Now it seems medically impossible he could have crawled that far with his heart and lungs tore clean out like that. But one thing you have to learn is that people don't die the way they do in John Wayne movies...
Suddenly, Ted Kennedy strides into the room, his flushed face beaming and his right hand reaching out. "Ooh," squeals an elegantly coiffed woman. "He shook my hand. Did you see that? This hand right here." Kennedy sweeps through the room, bellowing in his Boston accent, "Hi, how are you, good to see you." "Go, Teddy!" someone yells. Kennedy gives a short pep talk for the object of the reception, former Congressman William Green. "I want to introduce the man who will be the next mayor of Philadelphia," Kennedy says. Green takes the microphone and shouts: "I want to thank...
...more than a decade, he has distorted American presidential politics, three times a possible candidate and three times pulling back. "I would like to be President," he said at one point, "but not at this time." Now, disdainful of Carter's leadership, he has decided that the time is right. After a considerable amount of coy public indecision, he is expected to announce this week that he has formed a campaign committee, headed by Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith, 52, who helped run John Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1960. Then, barring some highly unlikely event, Edward Moore Kennedy...
Stoppard's only message is hardly original or airtight; it's nothing new to tell politicans they should worry about doing their jobs right and not about their public images, and it's specious to say that only newspapers are interested in sex scandals when the newspapers that cover then sell hundreds of thousands more copies than the newspapers that...
...furious, just furious," Harvard coach Edie MacAusland said. "My players were falling down left and right...