Word: trails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation's leading politicians venture out onto the campaign trail like four-year locusts here is a guide map to some domestic problems that ought to evoke some outrage and get some knees jerking...
Donald Westlake wrote the screenplay for this effectively suspenseful and brutal twist of America's suburban search for T.V. family bliss. No familial unit ever had it as good or as saccharine smooth as the Brady Bunch, but the Stepfather, leaving a trail of bodies and abandoned identities behind him, is set on making media myth a reality...
...your approach; it is when they are surprised that they tend to attack. When out alone, Morrow took to bellowing old Irish songs to alert whichever beasts might be lurking nearby. One day he headed out for some fishing in the Aberdare Mountains. "I went down the game trail to a trout stream with my fly rod in hand, singing like the Clancy Brothers," recalls Morrow, and it worked. No lions or Cape buffalo appeared. However, there was a different problem. The noise had also scared away the fish...
...inspire, Cuomo must now show that his message can sell. His vague vision of the nation-as-strikes some as mushy old liberalism. Notoriously thin-skinned and confrontational with critics, he will have to learn to endure the endless fleabites that come from relentless questioning on the campaign trail. But unlike other potential candidates, Cuomo does not need to scrounge for attention; he is sure to draw crowds, and reporters will trail him like stardust wherever he goes. He has a $4.5 million war chest left over from his landslide re-election and an aura that will quickly...
...investigation has picked up a trail of $300 and $500 payments to judges, which the union describes as Christmas gifts. One tape contained Traitz's statement to Judge Mitchell S. Lipschutz that a roofer's nephew, up on a minor theft charge, "just needs a clean bill to get into the Army." Lipschutz acknowledges receiving money but denies doing any favors in return...