Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...finally dismissed at 7:30 p.m. By 8 most are in bed; the day ahead will start at 4 a.m. The Paratrooper lies there thinking of what his brigade commander, Colonel Charles Ferguson, said that afternoon: "It's exciting. You get up for it. You have to do everything right. If you jump from 1,000 ft. and your parachute doesn 't open, you hit the ground in eight seconds." The Paratrooper does not sleep well, and he suspects most of the others do not either...
...makes his campaign seem thoughtfully planned rather than indecisive or excessively gentlemanly, the tale may indeed contain an element of after-the-fact rationalizing. But Bush's campaign could hardly have been better designed to make him Vice President than if that really had been its purpose from the start...
...speech that the 73-story Detroit Plaza Hotel, the showpiece of the city's celebrated Renaissance Center complex along the waterfront, might be doing nicely in attracting conventions but was not producing enough "transient business," Young took a microphone to declare: "Hank the Deuce just told us we gotta start hot-sheetin' it at the hotel...
...morning Today show, once an NBC stalwart, now trails ABC'S Good Morning America. Silverman's new daytime offering, the David Letterman Show, has fared so poorly that Silverman has already fired three producers. The latest executive calamity comes at the same time as the start of the 1980 Olympics, which NBC was to have covered and which promised to be one of the network's greatest achievements. Silverman hoped to repeat his performance of four years ago, when he used the Games to help catapult then lowly ABC to No. 1 in the ratings...
...funniest moment in the movie is a 90-second pantomime--"out of the clear blue sky," as George Bush would say--when a man starts imitating an ape, cradling a beer can, contorting his face, twisting his arms. And the best line in the movie belongs to Cheech; after their high-powered car has left the police in the dust, he turns to his partner and says, "That was too easy--let's let them catch up and start again...