Word: rollings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mujahedin had some special help that enabled them to resist the formidable assault so well. Three weeks before the Soviet tanks began to roll, American spy satellites detected movements that allowed agents to warn the rebels of the impending attack. Massoud's radio performance was made possible by the use of more than 40 CIA-supplied portable transmitters. In response to a specific request from Massoud, the CIA also arranged to send hundreds of land mines by plane, ship, truck, camel and pony across three continents and through several intermediaries, so that they got into rebel hands just before...
Belushi had a kind of reckless, rock-'n'-roll comedic sensibility. He was a volatile combination of Lou Costello and Vlad the Impaler, a performer with a wide appeal but a narrow range, whose talent could ignite television sketches but was quickly being tapped out in movies. He did not have the generative comic gifts of an Albert Brooks, say, or an Andy Kaufman, but he had a gruff, tough persona that exuded phantom wisps of tenderness and set him quite apart. He was the most intriguing of the Saturday Night troupe even as he was demolishing...
...heart os his concern. Was it still possible, he wanted to know, to bank the coal fire in one's rooms, and on a cold night take advantage of the current of warm air rising in the chimney? With sufficient skill one could, he explained, feed an entire roll of toilet paper up the flue whence it would drift out on the night air to garland the trees in the Yard...
...decide to take a chance on a woman's galvanizing effect. Says one political consultant: "If he's six or eight points down in the polls, he'll go with the conventional choice. But if he's 15 to 20 points down, he may say it's time to roll the dice. That's where Ferraro comes in at convention time...
...part of the fair's delight. But word of mouth among those who came was virtually all enthusiastic, and official confidence remains high. Win or lose, the city is looking better than it has in memory. And it is palpably feeling good, with reason. Let the good times roll...