Word: rollings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NOTEBOOK Commentary on the floor of the convention during the tense moments of the nomination roll call ranged from despairing and sardonic to jubilant...
Nonetheless, the Simpson-Mazzoli immigration bill took a long step toward becoming law last week. It survived a House vote that, late in a tension-filled roll call, appeared on the electronic scoreboards as a 210-210 tie. Final tally: 216 Congressmen (125 Democrats, 91 Republicans) for the bill; 211 (138 Democrats, 73 Republicans) against...
...mother Evelyn (when she could bear to watch), only Lewis, 22, seemed unawed by the regimen of so many heats under so much pressure. "I'm not saying it's easy," he announced at the outset, "but it's attainable. I'm ready to roll." He won the 100-meter dash in 10.06 with his familiar finishing crescendo, over Football Players Sam Graddy of Tennessee and Ron Brown, soon of the Los Angeles Rams. So the 4 X 100-meter relay team was set, too, in this likely order: Graddy leading off, Brown the second...
...Nick that her name, Hillary, means "she whose bosoms defy gravity") over a dizzying succession of generic spoofs. Beyond the basic sendup, which is of World War II-vintage spy movies, they work in parodies of Bond-style adventures and beach-blanket and malt-shop rock-'n'-roll musicals. Omar Sharif is the veteran star recruited to mock his image and collect the good-sport award from audiences. The dictum that less is more means nothing here; pace and profligacy are everything. This time, though, the creative group has neglected to build to the kind of giddy, everything...
Satisfaction is a Trojan horse--a quasi-Marxist critique of Consumerism and its cost to society and to the individual, disguised as a mindlessly sexy rock and roll song...