Word: instead
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...supported Jackson's two runs for the presidency. But if Barry drops out of the race, the pressure on Jackson to seek the mayoralty could be irresistible. As a result of Barry's bust, Jackson could finally win an important elected office in Washington -- to the District Building instead of the White House...
Parmet's Nixon is not the driven, tortured, fascinating schemer of popular memory or Watergate fame. In fact, that career-ending scandal merits only six pages at the book's close. Instead, Parmet paints Nixon as a regular guy, a mediator between the forces of welfare statism and cold war red bashing. Every rap against the former President -- from his 1952 slush fund to the 1972 Christmas bombing of North Viet Nam -- is thoroughly ventilated and, in most cases, dismissed. Nixon, says Parmet, was merely a child of his times, who "harnessed the unease that lay just below the surface...
...Instead of a small dose of mildly radioactive iodine, Lane had been treated with a megadose of radiation normally given to patients with thyroid cancer. She spent four days in a hospital isolation ward while her home was scrubbed down. Doctors say she has already contaminated her children...
...chain-smoking Janice Pasetti (Pamela Reed), who lives in a trailer with her chubby daughter and works as a maid. Somewhere in between is Weldon's niece (Bonnie Hunt) and her upwardly mobile husband (Michael McKean), who has an idea for saving Weldon Piano Works (make golf clubs instead) and a yen for the maid...
...Grand debunks any notion that Carsey and Werner have a magic touch. Their shows until now have been driven by stars with well- developed comic personas. (Chicken Soup failed because it never created a plausible milieu for its star. Jackie Mason as a social worker?) Grand depends instead on an ensemble cast, which seems adrift with characters thrown together as arbitrarily as passengers on a lifeboat. Joel Murray has some funny moments as old man Weldon's flaky son, and Reed gives off sexy sparks as the trailer-park mom. But they don't keep the boat from sinking...