Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part because of the Government's antismoking drive. So it was natural to target North Carolina early in the President's plans for political rehabilitation. The tactics called for praise of tobacco farming, a promise of continued price supports. That North Carolina's tobacco somehow ends up in those cigarettes that Carter's Government is trying to keep people from using was buried beneath some good-natured kidding about HEW Secretary Joe Califano...
...before the beginning of When You Comin' Back, Red Ryder?, you are confronted by a reconstruction of a sleazy small-town diner and an actor dressed in greaser attire with a tattoo that says "Born Dead" on his arm smoking a cigarette as if it were a joint. Somehow it seems like a good time to go home and watch George Scott ground into double plays...
...violent play. Teddy savages and humiliates his victims mentally and physically with relentless sadism. He is so belligerent that one wonders how he could have been driven to such a state of mind, and Medoff offers no real explanations. Teddy is a war veteran and a "disaffected youth," but somehow this does not adequately explain his attitude toward humanity. All too often he becomes more of an authorial mouthpiece than a coherent character, and when he says at the end that he wishes he could be sorry for what he has done it really seems as if someone is forcing...
...that the Greek government will nationalize the Onassis holdings to forestall a Soviet takeover, but they are nonetheless worried about what the Russians might do. "They are sure that one day the romance will be over, and what then?" says a family friend. "Will the Soviets brainwash Christina or somehow confiscate her property? They are afraid the Soviets will swallow...
Mormons believe in a prior spirit life, and their leaders have long taught that people are born into the black race because they somehow failed God during their preexistence. Kimball says flatly that Mormonism no longer holds to such a theory. He remains opposed to interracial marriage but couches his warnings against it as fatherly admonition; Brigham Young considered such marriages an offense punishable by "death on the spot...