Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...since the Kennedy presidency has Buchwald seen the country so interested in every aspect of the president's family life. "You know, if you went to a T.V. producer and said you had this idea for a T.V. series--you have this crazy family from Georgia which moves into the White House. And the president of the United States used to sell peanuts, and before that he was captain of a nuclear submarine. And he has a redneck brother who owns a gas station and drinks ten sixpacks of beer a day. And he has an 80-year-old mother...
...Reagan, calling him "a very honorable person," who because of his age "said he would be willing to be examined by a White House doctor, and if he found Reagan was senile or mentally incompetant he would resign from office. Now the problem with this is how would they know?--Anyone who wants to be president of the United States has to be crazy to start with...
...satirizing. "If the people are up on something and they're interested in it, then the humor of it works. If they're not interested, then the humor doesn't work," Buchwald explained. "It's like Johnny Carson--he'll tell a joke, and if the people don't know what he's talking about, it just lies there flat. And then he'll mention something about Billy Carter or something and he'll get applause. So when you're in the satirical business, you're as good as the story that you're making fun of," he philosophized...
John W. and Hanna M. Hastings, masters of North House, say they have been "waging a private campaign" for two years to obtain a bicycle path from the Quad to the Yard, thus far with no success. "I don't know why nothing has been done, and I was very surprised to learn they've closed the Yard to bicyclists without providing a reasonable alternative route," John Hastings says...
...school will also begin sponsoring frequent "wine and cheese" social gatherings for prominent alumni, Smith said, explaining the affairs, to which Kennedy School students will be invited, will give individual students "face-to-face contact" with the types of prospective employers "they must get to know...