Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cynicism among her youth. We have serious doubts about the reasons for the actions of our leaders. And those doubts raise a more serious question: how long can a government remain trusted, beloved, when it relies on power, not reason, to enforce its dictates? In a way, Sen. Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), Jimmy Carter and the rest should be thanked--draft registration will wake up another generation, start them wondering about our world. And who's to blame if the answers they arrive at don't jibe with administration policy...
...when Lyndon Johnson inherited the Oval Office late in 1963, he brought with him Sam Houston Johnson, a sharp-witted drunk with a predilection for the fast life. "I guess Lyndon wanted me close by so that he could keep a big-brotherly eye on all my extra-curricular activities," Sam wrote in his 1969 book, My Brother Lyndon...
...Sam behaved more like Lyndon's prize Airedale than his brother. He lived in the White House with the president and Lady Bird, before, between and after his two marriages, both of which ended in divorce. Lyndon, who used to turn out the lights in Sam's bedroom to save electricity, sincerely worried about Sam's carousing and would wait for him to come home, then chew him out for drinking too much...
...American past can leave even an enthusiastic patriot shaken: D.H. Lawrence once urged his readers to "look through the surfaces of American art, and see the inner diabolism." "The essential American soul," Lawrence said extravagantly, "is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer." In 19th century portrayals, Uncle Sam has a certain look in his eye that had disappeared by the time of the famous World War I I WANT YOU recruiting poster. The look is conniving, raw and whip-mean, the squint-shrewd eye of a man with a rope who is about a week's ride from...
...punishing consequences of a series of failed escape attempts. The movie's dialogue consists largely of grunts and ughs, to which sensible viewers may want to add a kind of choral effect of their own. Needless to say, the picture ends in a bloodbath that might startle Sam Peckinpah...