Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...mystified by Mitofsky's approach. Thompson spends months every year crisscrossing the country, talking to local election officials and learning all he can about each state before picking his precincts. Roy Wetzel, his counterpart at NBC, takes a similar tack. Says Thompson: "Mine is a subjective judgment. I know how to talk to people to get the kind of information I want. Then I put it into the computer...
...barkeeper and entrepreneur named Harry Tammen and a rich but tightfisted developer, Fred Bonfils. For the next several decades, the two partners made the Post one of the liveliest, if least respected newspapers in the country. Advertisers were bullied, civic leaders were indiscriminately attacked, and readers came to know Publisher Bonfils' homespun creed: "A dogfight in a Denver street is more important than a war in Europe." Yet the formula worked; the afternoon Post regularly outsold its morning rival, the Rocky Mountain News (now owned by the Scripps-Howard chain). As Tammen liked to say, "We're yellow...
...than Americans had in the past. When Grover Cleveland was secretly operated on for cancer of the jaw and mouth on board the yacht Oneida as it cruised on Long Island Sound, the public was told that the President had had some bad teeth extracted. The public did not know about Woodrow Wilson's stroke, nor were voters told about Franklin Delano Roosevelt's failing heart. John F. Kennedy spoke to intimates of "my Addison's disease," but the public was told that he had "a partial adrenal insufficiency." Dwight Eisenhower was the exception. After...
...silly as its prem ise: two guys dress as women to secure lodging in an all-girl hotel. Some Like It Hot this is not, and some of the jokes are more than nine days old. But there is promise here: the young stars, Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari, know when to underplay a line and when to run with it. If Thompson and Zwick can find inventive ways to extend this single-joke situation, Bosom Buddies could be worth watching...
...time they call a guy 'Lefty,' you know you got trouble...