Word: rubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...film perhaps is more cynical than realistic. But if this is not the way things are, then it is a measure of Peckinpah's skill that in giving voice to his own despair, he came to make this nightmare seem like our own. "I want to rub their noses in the vio lence of it," says Sam Peckinpah of Straw Dogs. A white-haired, roughhewn man of 46, he grins slyly, disguising his habitual anger. "I regard all men as violent, including myself. I'm not cynical. I still believe, and I still want everything to work...
...liberals as Indiana's Birch Bayh and Michigan's Philip Hart. Why? Maybe the Democrats only wanted to make their point and then leave Nixon stuck in 1972 with an Agriculture Secretary unpopular with a farm constituency that could be crucial to the election. But the real rub with the farmers is low corn prices; the Agriculture Secretary has wide latitude to tinker with support prices, and the Republican plan is simply to have Butz raise the floor under corn. The day after he was confirmed, Butz announced that the Government would start buying corn this month...
...just go down there, get our three touchdowns and a safety, maybe even give them a safety, and shake hands when it's over," said the Crime's split end Rob "Hands" Eggert. "We don't try to rub anybody's face...
...common image of the Justices as nine fiercely independent men has much truth in it, but tends to obscure a more important reality: that those same nine men must rub and scrape against one another, again and again, to come up with decisions that, ideally, at least five can agree on. In that process, one or two exceptional minds can make a considerable difference since the amount of cross-pollination is extensive. Every Friday during the term, the Justices closet themselves in a conference room and engage in what must be the most exciting weekly exchange of ideas...
...long ball. Seniors Pete Varney and Dan DeMichele were extremely dangerous not just because of their 400 batting averages but because they meant a possible run or two every time they stepped to the plate. Without them, Harvard lacks a player who with one swing of the bat can rub out a three-run deficit...