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...repartee, from Timothy Mayer's script, too often seems equally adrift. While former "Saturday Night Live" regular Denny Dillon performs confidently as Billy's mechanic, Lotus, her character soon becomes tiring. She refers to Edythe as "sea slime," but elsewhere her lines lose their freshness, especially in one explicitly excremental description of the Prince's brain. The book also forces Tune to reflect upon the time before everyone's birth, when we were "up swimming around in the sky waiting for the Lord to imagine...
...awkward moment, one of the President's boots stuck in the mud and only the quick reaction of two volunteer workers prevented him from falling into the slime. The incident was a fitting metaphor for Reagan's two-day trip, which also took him to Montgomery, Ala., Nashville and Oklahoma City. The White House had been looking for ways to pull the President out of the thickening political muck in Washington and portray him as a man of compassion. The stopover in Fort Wayne provided just such an opportunity...
...testified for the Government to help convict several Teamsters Union officials of racketeering. According to the FBI Picardo contended that Briguglio, a victim of a mob execution in 1978, had shared these payoffs. When asked about this at his Senate hearings, Donovan denied giving any bribes, called Picardo "murdering slime" and testified three times that he had never even met Briguglio. Because the FBI reported that it could not verify Picardo's charges, the committee accepted Donovan's denials. But since the hearings, TIME has learned, other witnesses have told federal investigators that they had seen Donovan...
...have to bring yourself to the level of slime in the squared circle." --Guy Mental, all-star professional wrestler...
...payoffs to Anthony Provenzano, a Mafia chieftain and Teamsters Union boss. But after examining 90,000 canceled checks and a similar amount in invoices at Donovan's firm, the FBI could find no corroboration for Picardo's charge. Donovan called his accuser "a pathological liar and murdering slime." Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch noted that Donovan's nomination had been "one of the most rigorously scrutinized in our country's history," but he expressed some lingering unease. "If any of these allegations prove to be true," he told Donovan, "it'll be one miserable experience...