Word: slips
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevermore let it be said that Christie Brinkley is only a looker. In National Lampoon's Vacation, the reigning supermodel walks, talks and gives at least a passing impersonation of an ingenue. Brinkley, 27, makes her film debut in a little slip of a cinema, due out next spring, that follows the misadventures of an American family on a cross-country trip from Chicago to a giant theme park in California called Walley World. Brinkley plays a blond in a red Ferrari who continually pops up along the route. The part is undoubtedly one that Meryl Streep would pass...
...Muskie tucked a hand-penned message into Jimmy Carter's evening reading "to keep the personal touch." In secret deliberations when the tide seemed to be running against the interests of President Kennedy or Johnson, Secretary Dean Rusk often would scribble a short plea on note paper and slip it unobtrusively to the man beside him. The message: "Don't make a decision now, Mr. President. Let me see you later." Henry Kissinger had a pact with Gerald Ford to meet at least a half-hour every working day the two were in the same city. "It could...
...movie The Deer Hunter, whose home-town scenes were filmed in Weirton. "You just know everybody," says Fran Crow, 27, a third-grade teacher. Her husband John, 28, has been furloughed from his job as a Weirton Steel salesman, one of 2,600 who received a pink slip in the past two years. "At first I was thrilled," he says. "I thought I'd play a little golf." Now, he says, "it's scary...
...those who violate it. Since the Government's budget-making process begins 21 months before the end of the given fiscal year, accurate forecasting is virtually impossible. Economic and budget assumptions can be doctored. All the states except one now have annual balanced-budget requirements, but they slip out of the straitjacket by capitalizing their long-term improvements, spreading the cost of bridges and highways and the like out over their useful life. The temptation to pursue such federal budgeting with mirrors would be overwhelming...
...According to the diary, when Alexander was slated to receive a medal from Soviet Chairman Mikhail Kalinin for his work on the canal, Cousin Sasha on the eve of his arrest pleaded with the Chekist to try to save his wife. "Sasha wasted no time in asking him to slip Kalinin a petition to have Musya freed when he received the medal from Kalinin's hands," Freidenberg wrote. "The idea was preposterous and utterly hopeless. Alexander rejected it, of course, for which both Sasha and Mama turned against him, and from that day on Mama disavowed all connection with...