Word: tad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point, in her blithe confidence that printing all the truth about absolutely everything can do no harm, Megan (who sometimes is made to appear a tad too naive to be believed) causes an unbalanced young woman whom Michael has tried to protect to commit suicide. In that tragedy's aftermath, he says to the reporter: "Couldn't you just see her? Couldn't you stop scribbling, put down your goddam ballpoint and see her?" It is a question all journalists should put to themselves frequently, and we are in this film's debt for raising...
...about who serves the best draught beer in town. Amid the hundreds of students frenetically cramming a month before finals, who all give you strange looks because your Converse sneakers squeak ever so slightly, there is no problem finding Victor. Isn't that, you wonder out loud, just a tad strange...
...whole idea sounds more than a tad dealistic, but at least in on significant case, Wylie and council supporters have begun to be proven correct...
...park in Pacheco, Calif., for a little game of poker. The stakes never vary: nickels and dimes, with winners going home as much as $7 richer. Suddenly, two Contra Costa County sheriffs deputies burst into the room. "Freeze! You're under arrest!" they yelled at the gamblers. A tad hard of hearing, one of the boys shouted back, "Whaddid ya say? Whaddid ya say?" But Bob Tebo, 56, heard only too well: "It scared the hell out of me. I've got a heart problem, and I was afraid my heart would stop...
...actors led by Tom Bird have formed the Veterans Experience Theater Company in New York City. T.J. Anderson, Fletcher Professor of Music at Tufts University, is working on an opera called Soldier Boy, Soldier, about the readjustment problems of a black Viet Nam vet. A San Francisco veteran named Tad Foster has come forth with a mordant collection of cartoons called The Viet Nam Funny Book. The Viet Nam War is even, finally, good for laughs...