Word: courier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Richard Darman said last October (using the Washington Post's Bob Woodward as his courier) that the "read my lips" pledge was a campaign maneuver, urged by Roger Ailes to counter the picture of Bush as a wimp. Bush resisted making a dubious pledge, but once it was made, once his manhood was vindicated by it, he could abandon the pledge only at his peril. If he did not break it, one tool was denied him in coping with mounting interest payments on the deficit (which doubled in Bush's years). If he did break it, his macho moment became...
...Barbra Streisand embracing the efforts of Andre Agassi at the U.S. Open, before he threw his racquet while losing to Jim Courier in four sets...
...Magic Johnson, his smile as broad as an unbalanced beam, taking in the women's gymnastics, and there was Steffi Graf, looking unusually relaxed (before her loss in the final to Jennifer Capriati) and confessing that she would have liked to try the 100 m. There was Jim Courier, speaking with touching sincerity of the joys of living in a tiny room without air conditioning. "I wouldn't miss staying in the Village for anything," he said. "You get up in the morning and you see some of the best athletes in the world going for jogs or eating breakfast...
Local residents seized on a creative response early one morning last May, when members of Pastor Chuck Chipman's congregation descended on a gang- infested neighborhood to rescue a 12-year-old boy being forced to work as a drug courier for a gang that was threatening him and his family. Before gang members could react, the entire family of four and all its belongings were whisked away to a safe house...
...MURDERED COURIER, HIS BODY DIScovered on the rim of a New Mexico canyon; an attache case stuffed with the usual large sum of money; any number of strange disappearances: WHITE SANDS bedazzles mainly by the speed and dexterity with which it shuffles and deals its assorted plot elements. Eventually, corrupt FBI men, a guy who claims to be CIA (Mickey Rourke in a role small enough so he doesn't wear out his welcome), some crooked arms dealers and a sexy mystery woman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) all cherchez le loot. Director Roger Donaldson puts a curiously cheerful spin on paranoia...