Word: tossings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There seemed to be the ingredients for some old-time demagoguery in this fall's election. The economic strain was palpable, from the Texas oil patch through the heartland cornfields to the Piedmont textile mills. Toss in the problems of Rocky Mountain mining, the timber woes of the Northwest, and despair in the Rust Belt and there was plenty of material for a latter-day rawboned, loudmouthed populist. Thus invited, none came to the party. There was a good deal of personal mudslinging, but of such limited imagination and low quality as to be totally forgettable...
...place to note that Fresno is a spoof. In a prime-time soap- opera era of evil look-alikes, characters miraculously resurrected from the dead, and whole seasons that turn out to be dreams, it is hard to tell the parody from the real goods. Fresno tries to toss stink bombs at a genre that is probably impervious to anything short of nuclear annihilation. What's more, it does so in a format virtually unheard of on TV: a comedy mini-series. No multiparter has ever managed to sustain laughs for five consecutive nights. On purpose anyway...
...race that had been rated a toss-up, former governor and Duke University president Terry Sanford picked up a seat for the Democrats, defeating James Broyhill, who had been appointed to finish the term of Republican John East, who committed suicide earlier this year...
Stephen Smith, a Cambridge first-grader, who came dressed as Chuck Norris, the "karate king," said he enjoyed playing the ball toss and the other games. "I'm having lots of fun," he said after his mother prompted...
...Grossinger's you don't work. You toss the horseshoe, but a member of our staff picks it up. Also you throw downhill. What's your name...