Word: slews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faced with the difficult task of unseating a 23-year veteran of the Massachusetts Legislature, Rep. Peter A. Vellucci (D-Cambridge) and his campaign staffers have pulled in a slew of endorsements and contributions as they prepare for the September 15 Democratic primary, campaign workers said...
...harder to fathom. It is pleasant to watch Charles Osgood narrating a video version of Strunk and White's classic writing manual, The Elements of Style. But why would anyone who cares about the distinction between "irritate" and "aggravate" be watching a videotape instead of reading the book? A slew of soothing "mood tapes," ranging from Video Fireplace to Loon Country by Canoe (natural sounds only), is relaxing, all right, but so is a test pattern. On the other hand, after a session with Betty White's Learn to Fox Trot Course or How to Have a Moneymaking Garage Sale...
...nasty, full of bluff brimstone -- that never made it into the carnal candy land evoked by the 1987 movie Dirty Dancing. The shrewdly calculated saga of a girl's coming of age in 1963, the film Dirty Dancing is responsible more than anything else for this new slew of what might be called pube rock. The movie was so perfect a young teen dream, it became almost poignant. You had to see it to believe it, and many did. Dirty Dancing pulled in $65 million at the box office and is still going strong at the video stores...
Then there's Paul Newman's classic Fort Apache, the Bronx. Newman, the aging cop, had to ward off a slew of crime-hungry Puerto Ricans. Commit crimes--that's what Latin Americans like to do, the audience must conclude...
...recognition of the impact of structural constraints and opportunities on the life chances of the underclass opens up a slew of public policy alternatives. Wilson states in his preface that a major goal of The Truly Disadvantaged is precisely to spell out some of these public policy alternatives...