Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...following morning, a more relaxed Kennedy quipped, "Well, here I don't go again." He repeated his contention that the issues he cares about get submerged when everything he does is viewed as a move to advance his presidential ambitions. He had been irked last January when his trip to South Africa had been put in a campaign context, and he feared that a tour this week of poverty areas in the U.S. would get similar treatment. For most people, Kennedy suggested with a smile, "the more important issue seems to be whether my weight is going up or down...
...Soviets responded peevishly to Shultz's trip, and especially to his rhetoric, which the Communist Party daily Pravda denounced as a throwback to the cold war era. Soviet Americanologist Georgi Arbatov asserted that Shultz has backed down from his pre-summit posture of conciliation toward the Soviet camp and has instead bowed to pressure from "right-wing circles" that, according to Soviet demonology, control the White House...
...Lineup contest. Cards for the game were available in display cases in grocery stores. On the cards were two rows of dots, and contestants had to scratch them off to reveal the number of field goals and touchdowns scored in a particular football game. The grand prize was a trip valued at $20,000 for eight to the Super Bowl in a Learjet...
...Linkletter show, they announced her grand prize: a trip to Europe to see the fashion houses. She went to France, drank wine, ate well, saw the Folies-Bergere. It broadened her, and later, when men came into her life, she found them "drippy" for all their narrow interests, to say nothing of the feeling she had that none was the sort to take her back to Europe...
...hour) or weighted down by gloomy moralizing, one of the more lamentable legacies of Rod Serling's classic program. But there have been surprises. Among them was a striking episode from Director John Milius (Red Dawn), in which a man murders his mistress's husband while on a hunting trip, then relives the crime with the roles reversed. Milius bathed his key scenes in orange light and an otherworldly fog, giving the routine tale a haunting resonance...