Word: sightedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...evasive tactics became more common: find Billy. In midweek she set off for Plains, Ga., to where the President's brother had also headed. She almost caught him. "Alas," McGeary reports, "he ate breakfast at his regular table at the Best Western motel in nearby Americus, but the sight of a familiar TIME photographer, Jay Leviton, had alerted Billy to the press hunt. He zoomed out of the motel and hasn't been seen here since." McGeary staked out Billy's gas station in Plains and his house 20 miles out of town, where she found...
BILLY is like sinus trouble," a White House staffer said a few years ago. "It never goes away but it never hurts that much." "There's no Billygate in sight," added Time magazine, "but the President would be well-advised to tell his beer-swilling First Brother to shut up." Billygate--a bungled White House attempt to cover up Billy Carter's ties to Libya--has now flooded Washington, of course, and no amount of Allerest or Pabst Blue Ribbon will ease the pain...
Rightists ride triumphant, but the nominee must widen his appeal to win Imagine this colloquy among Republican leaders as they gather around the celestial TV set to watch their party's convention. Theodore Roosevelt: It's a bully sight! Calvin Coolidge: Too expensive. Mark Hanna: Not much excitement. I can't see a single smoke-filled room. Henry Cabot Lodge: I'm worried about the westward tilt of the party. The East always supplied the intellectual leadership. T.R.: If I had not gone West . . . Coolidge: What's all this talk about winning the blue-collar vote? America's business...
Cheech and Chong have stuck with a successful shtick for years. People, they have discovered, find it a little thrilling to see illicit drugs on the big screen, thrilling enough that they will howl and yell and carry on at the sight of the drug. And so the pair, aging Chicano drifters, draw laughs with an elaborate series of sight gags and one-liners, all connected to dope...
Airplane! is about as funny as you want it to be If you go ready to laugh at sight gags--control tower operators playing pong basketball on radar screens--some genuinely racist humor--in the form on two men speaking "jive"--and endlessly repeated jokes--"Surely you must be joking." "I told you not to call me Shirley."--then you'll enjoy the film. But don't go expecting Woody Allen or even Mel Brooks--there's something very anticlimatic about this film after all the media hype. As in most films where the plot is the background...