Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better at inspiring hopes and dreams than he is at designing specific programs to help the poor. His critics are biting on this score. Says Elections Expert Richard Scammon, a conservative Democrat: "Jesse Jackson is a black George Wallace-a Rodney Dangerfield. He wants respect. It's a scream for attention. He has no real program. He doesn't know what he's doing." In private, one of Jackson's Democratic rivals is almost as caustic. "There's still one speech Jackson hasn't given yet," he says. "We still haven't seen...
...Very young and therefore very brave, the men of these small fighting units, or escadrons, whip their Toyotas' flanks until the vehicles seem to snort and froth at the bit like fine-blood Arab stallions. The young soldiers move silently, without war cries except for the high-pitched scream of their engines...
...broad-minded University!) Or is it the case that morality is judged by popular ballot--more people despise Pi Eta's sexual ethic (as allegedly represented in its newsletter) than despise other groups' sexual choices? If this is the case then prepare for the worst--and don't scream when some majority legislates your morality...
Ronald Reagan will always be remembered as the Republican President who made both the Democrats and the press scream about the deficit. It will be a long time before another politician can with impunity spend more money than he takes in. If only Congress would understand the seriousness of the message and begin to cut spending...
...makers, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol, wrote of the director in 1957, "In Hitchcock's work, form does not embellish content, it creates it." Hitchcock, less interested in universal theories than in the international box office, put his artistic aims more matter of factly: "The Japanese audience should scream at the same time as the Indian audience...