Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe we were propelled into the race," says Dole. "I think we just sort of kept trudging along, probably feeling right along that we would take a stab at it, hoping that Reagan wouldn't run." Unable to travel fulltime, Dole believes, he failed to get enough attention from the press and from television, and thus failed "to hit a home run" in the early caucuses and primaries. His, he thinks, was a failure caused by circumstance, not his own flaws. Says he: "I don't think I was ever really rejected, because I was never out front...
Strangely enough, it is this slapdash indictment of the American system that differentiates these first "summer" films of the eighties from movies of other summers. Neither of these films has a political consciousness to speak of, and both are only mildly--and spottily--entertaining. But each takes a stab at the American capitalist system and the Protestant ethic of hard work and honesty. And in each film, the American way of life takes a beating, handily defeated by chicanery, theft and vice...
...haunting recollection of his old life in Moscow. "It is amazing how cruelty to animals was so accepted," he says. "Boys, totally unprovoked, would kick dogs until they were half dead. You would see cats and dogs limping around with an ear cut off or stab wounds in the side...
...year-olds are taking up with older women, then wisecracks: "I don't want my 14-year-old involved with your 16-year-old. I want him very far away from her." Pat explains that he is not worried about age discrepancy, only that the husband might stab his son. "Let this one go," replies Grant. "You've described her as a pleasant young woman. Let your son go on experimenting with life...
...kind of surprised that I got to it," Bowles said after the game. "It was hit pretty well, but I figured I'd make a stab at it. Since there were two outs, I dove and somehow came up with...