Word: drawerful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bork said he thinks the letter will make a goodsouvenir but does not plan to frame it. "I'll keepit filed deep in a desk drawer," he said
...Boland amendment prohibited. In truth, the amendment, like Congress's whole policy toward Nicaragua, was no model of clarity. But North, according to one participant in his schemes, knew full well what he was doing. According to this source, North kept copies of the Boland amendment in his desk drawer, and once pulled one out and remarked cavalierly, "This is the law I'm violating, and I could go to jail...
...desk in his workroom. The room, kept locked against the incursions of four children, ages 20 to 30, who still come by and "steal my records," also accommodates a broken 17th century organ, a functioning studio-size recording console, piles of music books and tapes, and a secret desk drawer filled with soap filched from hotel rooms around the world. At the moment, Morricone is in the throes of scoring Brian DePalma's upcoming The Untouchables. He works nine-hour stretches almost daily, in part because he is perpetually plagued by the question " 'Will I write again tomorrow?' Whoever says...
...that has something wrong with it. Tightly made in its parts, the book sags as a whole. Dunne, a journalist and, with Wife Joan Didion, writer of such filmscripts as A Star Is Born and True Confessions, seems to have put his notebooks, filing cabinet and even his sock drawer to good use. His descriptions of courtrooms and Hollywood living rooms suggest nimble legwork and a fine ear. Agent to agent: "You can say what you want about communism, but those boys know how to structure a deal." A caterer on the subject of specialty bar mitzvahs: " 'Mr. Wonderful...
Because every time during the next few months when it snows or freezes, all I have to do is open my desk drawer and see those nine tickets sitting there and I'm fine...