Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Reagan's presidential rivals were also jubilant. Said David Keene, George Bush's political director, who worked as Reagan's Southern strategist in 1976: "We're pleased to see him benching his first string. They managed to get rid of 90% of the people with talent in that campaign. Look at how Sears bagged us in the debate. Nobody else could have done it." With 47 Republican primaries and caucuses to go, Reagan now has to rely on a new team to undertake the services once performed by "Rasputin...
Sexual Perversity is a string of these revelations, a blinking sequence of comic vignettes. The tiny lives of Danny Shapiro, Bernie Litko, Deborah Solomon and Joan Webber unfold like used cocktail napkins seeped in ritualized sexual juices at the bottom of a human sink. They go to single bars, they talk about sex as if it were running for president, they talk dirty in bed ("cum tastes like the junior prom...it smells like clorox but it tastes like the junior prom,") and they comment on the sexual revolution ("what do you think this is, the past...
...Maine and back the weekend before the Beanpot a month ago, what could have been a relaxing one-hor flight this morning was a nine-and-a-half hour nightmare on the bus last night. With the Crimson eliminated from playoff possibilities and--in effect-just playing out the string, these games are meaningless. If a possible playoff spot had been at stake, however, Cleary might have come under fire from the unknowing for his decision to use the one flight allowed by the athletic department earlier in the season...
...that Lloyd's fat years have been followed by a lean period, this unlimited liability rule and a string of heavy claims threaten the members of some syndicates with personal bankruptcy. Losses totaling about $340 million have been incurred from insuring U.S. computer-lease contracts that were prematurely canceled when IBM came out with a better machine. Furthermore, last year a disastrous 2.3 million tons of shipping were lost-including what may become the biggest marine claim ever, the sinking in the Caribbean in July of a 293,000-ton oil tanker, the Atlantic Empress. In addition, members face...
...beginning, but not the end. "He was desperate to have this film work," his wife recalls. "He was like a string that would snap if it were pulled any tighter." Director Hal Ashby, knowing how much he needed assurances, tried to provide them, but in the midst of production could not always summon enough time or energy. Worse, Sellers found the principal location, the Biltmore mansion in Asheville, N.C., cold and depressing in the winter. As usual, he found it impossible to leave his role on the set and walked around inside Chance's deadly placid character all the time...