Word: john
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...Montana, Nebraska, Colorado and Utah, they rejected initiatives that would limit spending or roll back taxes. A similar measure in Massachusetts would have cut the state budget by 8% by reducing fees to 1988 levels. The proposal was supported by the Republican candidate, William Weld, and opposed by Democrat John Silber, who warned of a "meltdown" of the state economy. In the end voters accepted Weld -- and rejected his tax rollback...
...unpopular on Capitol Hill, and his handling of budget and campaign strategies has drawn critical howls. But John Sununu is in no danger of being replaced as White House chief of staff. In fact, George Bush will rely on his top aide's conservative instincts even more heavily as the President turns sharply partisan in 1991 in preparation for the 1992 campaign. "Sununu," a Bush intimate said last week, "isn't going anywhere...
This movie also reminds us that there was a lot of its eponymous hero in the swashbuckling screen characters of Douglas Fairbanks, the young John Barrymore and Errol Flynn. All of them improbably and delightfully blended the manners of the cavalier, the morality of the populist and, in those rare moments when they paused for reflection, the mooniness of adolescence...
...children wasted little time in catching up. Ethel became an adolescent star. Lionel and John followed in her footlights, and for half a century the trio dominated the American stage and screen. The story of the siblings has provoked innumerable books, plays and films -- including one appropriately titled The Royal Family. But none approaches the work of Margot Peters, biographer of Charlotte Bronte and professor of English literature at the University of Wisconsin. The House of Barrymore brims with insight, scandal and anecdote; even in death, Ethel, Lionel and John cannot stop entertaining the audience...
Lionel developed into one of the most versatile character actors of the 1930s and '40s. But he was afflicted with physical ailments and marital woes. Trapped in Hollywood, he turned to morphine. John outdid them both. Peters theorizes that the Great Profile was "androgynous . . . To mask his vulnerability, he adopted a supermasculine pose: hard-drinking, profane, whoring, cynical. He lived in terror of being unmasked." Yet drunk or hung over -- which was most of the time -- John became a matinee idol, a superb comedian and the most celebrated Hamlet...