Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Today, it's all different. Baseball has become the sport of computerized Big Brother large-screen color televisions that tell fans when to cheer and whether the umpires muffed up the play at the plate. It has become the sport of artificial turf, covered roofs, ugly mascots, the ever-annoying Wave, gloves the size of California and huge beer...
...This incident proves you can't tell Congress anything without it leaking," said a senior White House aide last week, after the Washington Post reported that President Reagan had authorized unspecified covert action to help oust Panamanian Leader Manuel Antonio Noriega. Not so, said both Democrat David Boren, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and ranking Republican William Cohen. The two Senators got questions from reporters even before the committee was briefed on the finding. That, they charged, meant the Administration had divulged the information to "set up" the committee as being unable to keep secrets...
...liquid diet three weeks ago). As interviewers go, she is no match for, say, Phil Donahue, whose program was the obvious model for hers. What she lacks in journalistic toughness, however, she makes up in plainspoken curiosity, robust humor and, above all, empathy. Guests with sad stories to tell are apt to rouse a tear in Oprah's eye or get a comforting arm around the shoulder. They, in turn, often find themselves revealing things they would not imagine telling anyone, much less a national TV audience. It is the talk show as group-therapy session...
This time around, politicians did not waste their time bidding for Black voters. They focused on the bi-partisan Hispanic vote instead. Black voters stand up and tell Dukakis and Bush that they have minds of their own. What Blacks must say to Dukakis is "show us." Jackson has given his "recommendation," now is the time for Dukakis to show why Blacks should support...
...tell you, doc, I'm sick. There must be a cure...