Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Disregarding any parochial bias, the Harvard game is different. The aim is to keep the opponent off balance. Angles, drop shots and finesse create the attack. "Funny stuff," some call...
Penn and Tesich stuff so many old so many old socks of social issues into this laundry bag of a movie that the odors overwhelm. They drag us through a predictable much of cliches--a drug trip, a terminally ill college roommate--losing fun and movement in the search for "meaning". All the classic themes, the signs of the times, proliferate but they all fall flat...
...recordings mysteriously end in November of 1940, perhaps simply be cause Roosevelt had won reelection. Hardly the stuff of Watergate, but new evidence that no man is a hero to his own tape recorder...
There's a lot of interesting stuff in there about government-business relations, the role of presidential aides, and elective politics, but it could have been explained without making up a quote and sticking it in someone's mouth. If Fromson is willing to fabricate intricate conversations that couldn't possibly have been recorded, how do we know he hasn't made up whole characters and situations to lend his commentary texture...
Elizabeth Taylor, "out of my mind" after several months on her own, marries David Stockman, "out of my mind, period." In an interview in Parents magazine, Stockman says, "Our kids are going to get enough to eat. None of this ketchup stuff. Oops, the boss may use the buckle end this time...