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...first, what happened seemed blindingly clear. A powerful TV journalist hectored the Vice President, who had been lured into the interview expecting that it would focus on his presidential campaign. Eager to combat his wimpy image, Bush came to shove, denouncing Rather's tactics and counterattacking by recalling the evening last September when Rather stalked away from his anchor duties and left the network blank for more than six minutes. The tightly coiled anchorman, a combustible character in the coolest of mediums, seemed almost to spring out of his chair, unsettling his audience with high-voltage intensity. It was video...
Ronald Reagan these days seems to be inviting calamity, whether through his obsessive reluctance to raise revenues to reduce the deficit or his impulse to shove Supreme Court choices down the Senate's open throat. So far he has saved himself in the eleventh hour, but his anger lurks menacingly beneath the surface...
Then there was Francis, the goalie who had to replace a shaken-up John Devin in the second period and face the Olympic firing line. The team that would try to shove pucks down the throats of Russian goalies in February was now using Francis as a target. He had to defend the Harvard net from the lighting-quick attack. What a way to begin your Harvard career...
...more games, pretty boy," I said, "No ties, see? I'll make xerox copies from morning to night! I'll shove papers from Desk A to Desk B, and write memos until I drop dead of boredom! Then I'll get up the next morning and do it again! I'll even work in a bank! Just no ties...
...taxes low was to agree to raise them a bit. If there was no budget compromise with Congress, he said, the financial markets might continue to weaken and the economy might take a real turn for the worse. That, he continued, might give the Democrats enough political clout to shove through a big increase severely trimming back Reagan's cherished tax cuts, either by ramming one through over the President's veto or by winning the 1988 election and enacting a stiff boost after Reagan left office. The President showed great reluctance to accept the advice that he should compromise...