Word: shamelessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wonders why Barry hold back, given the abruptness from the palace, and the constant complaints about the family's parsimony. Whatever his reasons, Royal Secrets comes off as a shameless example of profiteering, full of tidbits that Barry could just as easily have included in his first book, Royal Service. "I realized that I had more to say," he writes in the introduction, but Windsor fans are still waiting for him to tell...
Cynics will call this a B-team Superman. Screenwriter David Odell and Director Jeannot Szwarc concentrate on strong, simple pleasures: Slater's easy grace and uncomplicated beauty; the bravura of (Obi-Wan) O'Toole, shameless and affecting as he just about tears a planet to tatters; and a hilarious wicked-witch turn by the delicious Dunaway. The climactic confrontation, in which man's fate is decided by two women, could elicit thrills of laughter from a Saturday-matinee benefit performance...
...said. Ferraro didn't catch him, but The New York Times did, later quoting the Administration's own Office of Management and Budget figures showing that welfare has been cut by $2 billion, food stamps by more than $1.5 billion. It was another example of the Administration's shameless figure-twisting. It was also the sort of figure-twisting that would be more difficult to pull in a real debate...
...here; another member wears nothing at all. Suddenly there is a murder, then another, then ... Flynn is invited to investigate. Who is expunging all of these parasites? While the venerable members scurry about hiding corpses, Flynn puzzles it through, though the murders themselves seem just and appropriate. This is shameless Establishment bashing and ideal under-the-beach-umbrella reading...
...working as a second-and fourth-grade teacher in a Queens public school, she took night law classes at Fordham University, with financial help from her mother. The Congresswoman still uses her maiden name as a gesture of gratitude. Her mother remains an almost daily phone confidante and a shameless booster. Says the elder Ferraro: "Geraldine is such a hard worker. What honor she does...