Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Interesting stuff, but not the stuff of live drama. The conversations and confrontations are too low-key to acquire any dramatic tension, and not banal enough to reach a Pinteresque plateau of menace Chunks of the play are dedicated to give-and-takes between the various permutations of Stewart. Barbara and Bob debating the necessity, the ability, the desirability, and the morality of helping the Mr. Stewarts of this world. Every one of these dialogues rings true, but not one rings interesting...
...trust the quality of American products, much less Asian imports. Says Eric Hayden, an economist and a director of the Bank of America in Tokyo: "The Japanese are not going to take South Korean machine tools or Malaysian cars or Indonesian airplanes. Japan doesn't import that kind of stuff. The Japanese produce it, and better than any of these countries...
...Ruth stories abound. The Bambino had "a heart as big as a watermelon, and made of pure gold." He also had a rather large appetite: "He'd stop along the road when we were traveling and order a half dozen hot dogs and as many bottles of soda pop, stuff them in one after the other, give a few big belches, and then roar,'ok boys, let's go... Another original Hall of Famer, Honus Wagner, "just ate the ball up with his big hands, like a scoopshovel, and when he threw it to first base you'd see pebbles...
...person who didn't care about what this stuff was about would write a report and let it go at that," says Simon, who worked with Bok in the Army. "That's what most people in the Pentagon did. But he persevered with a moral passion and changed a lot of bad rules...
Ferraro's manner did turn off many voters. But in the end, she went a long way toward convincing all but the most skeptical that she had the right stuff, not only to become the first woman and the first Italian American to run on a major party's national ticket, but to be equal to the stress of being a heartbeat away from the presidency. Continuously under a scrutiny more intense than was ever before applied to a vice-presidential candidate, she made few gaffes and gave no ground. With her candidacy hanging in the balance, she called...