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Word: sams (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kitty. He can be moved by the plight of others; he can faint at the bloody reality of pain, be disarmed at the sight of real Athenians, waver when his friend misleads him about a campaign trick. But he does radiate to voters his own sense of being chosen. Sam Beer, Harvard's famous professor of government, who taught Dukakis at Swarthmore, says, "He was born to rule." He was always the Inevitable Michael. Things fall into place for him as by plan; he does not have to make any frantic effort to pass marker after marker on his privately...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats: Born to Bustle | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

Written by Sam Shepard...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Just a Story About Some Cowboys | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

...guess this Sam Shepard fella wants us all t' think he's th' prototype rugged Westerner, th' last cowboy. That's why he's in all those movies, playin' th' big steer with th' bad teeth. N' that's why he writes plays like Curse of the Starving Class...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Just a Story About Some Cowboys | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

...clothes, n' Mom confuses him for his father. Junior also goes out n' slaughters a lamb n' practically washes himself in lamb's blood. Beats me what all this Christian symbolism is doin' in a play whose characters are as poor spiritually as they are materially; maybe Sam's just tryin' to increase th' mythic dimensions of th' play, or somethin...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Just a Story About Some Cowboys | 7/19/1988 | See Source »

...press is not going to give your whole argument," Reagan told the Vice President. "Every time I go out now and later turn on the television to watch, they have me saying 'Hello' and 'Goodbye,' and they have Sam Donaldson delivering my message. You've got to get some money and buy some TV and deliver your own message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Reagan on a Roller Coaster | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

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