Word: sure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School Daze) must be enjoying his prominence as the angry young man of the don't-worry, be-happy '80s. Of all the blacks who have strutted through the studio door that Eddie Murphy kicked down, Lee is the one who won't settle for being a Murphy manque. Sure, he markets himself cannily, as a performer in Air Jordan commercials, and with books and The Making of . . . spinoffs of his own movies. But Lee will not be ingratiating; he wants to be accepted on his own rude terms. Same goes for Do the Right Thing...
...long ago. He had let his debts get the better of him and had gambled recklessly in the market. But he was of essentially good character and excellent financial prospects, so if only his creditors had borne with him until he got his bonus, everything would have been fine. "Sure, sure," said three of his creditors, who had heard it all before. They forced him into bankruptcy over $60,000. Six months later, he got a quarter of a million dollars bonus and paid off all his creditors except the three. When his rage at them subsides...
...provision sure to draw a legal test on separation of church and state, the bill would issue vouchers to parents for use in day-care centers that offer religious instruction. To win the support of Republican Senators, ABC would create a tax credit for the costs of care and child health insurance, adding to the federal deficit as much as $10.3 billion in lost tax revenues in five years...
...hard to avoid wondering why LL doesn't sing about different subjects on his newest album. Sure, he brags like no other rapper, but that's all he does. Except for "Fast Peg" and "Change Your Ways," Cool J raps about himself. That formula is starting to wear after only three albums...
...slow, easy smile, ducked his head in a kind of protest against such audacity. "I cannot answer that, really," he said. "With ((the 22nd Amendment)) in place, you did not even think of it. You knew that it was all over at the end of two terms." Hunch: he sure would have...