Word: seem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sales of U.S. missiles to Iran, he first said that he had, then that he had not, then that the "simple truth is, I don't remember." On the basis of such evidence, the Tower commission condemned Reagan's careless "management style" and complained that the "President did not seem to be aware of the way in which the operation was implemented...
...journalist, Breslin gave Queens a picturesque notoriety long before All in the Family folksied up the place for national consumption. He Got Hungry pushes the Archie Bunker mentality over the edge of realism into absurdity. Howard Beach mobsters like the Chief and Frankie Five Hundred seem to be overdone holdovers from Breslin's The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1969). The kinks in New York's welfare bureaucracy are authentic and darkly humorous, but the black characters are not developed beyond their jive. Father D'Arcy's mission is unfocused, his misadventures a blur, and his conversion from guardian...
...Managing has been so involving, I feel like I'm almost playing," he says. "Anyway, it wouldn't be fair for me to say I'm going to miss hitting the ball, because I got to hit it more than anybody." Just as Henry Aaron's 755 home runs seem somehow more difficult to keep count of than Babe Ruth's 714, Rose's 4,256 hits will take a while displacing Ty Cobb's 4,191 as a mystical number in the record books. "Maybe if I was second in hits, games, at bats, doubles, runs scored, five...
...filled with dry seeds that shake, rattle and roll south of the border. Most audiences could not pick it out of a percussion lineup, and concert managers flee at the very mention of its name. For Leigh Howard Stevens, to be the world's greatest classical marimbist must sometimes seem a dubious achievement...
...Soviet leader was terribly guarded about Communist politics and told Reagan almost nothing of his struggles inside the Kremlin. "He did seem aware of the problems that I have with Congress and the various political factions," Reagan said. "But he does not view events in the Kremlin the same way we view our government. We all know that he has his troubles too. He does not mention them...