Word: truckloads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...event is winding down, and Biden, the quick-smiling Irish-Catholic pol, kisses and jokes his way back to the Jeep. He seems to know who among the women in pantsuits sent the fruit baskets, who the flowers. He calls out to George Collins, who brought a truckload of watermelons from his farm, to save...
...past three months alone. Traveling in convoys guarded by ill-equipped Frelimo troops, relief vehicles are easy prey. Fifteen CARE drivers and assistants have lost their lives since 1984. Driver Vincent Joao Mendes was ambushed twelve miles from Maputo last November as he headed north with a truckload of corn. Mendes escaped by leaping from the cab of the truck, but a soldier and two others were wounded by gunfire. "Now I think a lot about my seven children," Mendes says. "I won't be going out of town for a long time...
...like Judge Bork.") But around these few facts, the film spins a fantasy of irreverence and lost innocence. Mostly, it puts its star behind an Armed Forces Radio mike to devise some stratospheric ad libs. The monologues, the English lessons for Vietnamese students and Adrian's chat with a truckload of G.I.s were all improvised under the astute eye of Director Barry Levinson. "Barry lets you be free," Williams notes, "but not so free you're floundering. He sets up these little cones, like the ones they put on the freeway. If you knock one over...
...sparring between Volz and Edwards was at times hotter than a dash of Tabasco. "You issued subpoenas by the sackload, and we hauled documents in here by the truckload," the Governor bristled, "and you have not produced a single witness or a solitary piece of evidence to contradict what I've said!" When Volz harped on Edwards' omission of the hospital deals on two financial disclosure forms, the Governor claimed that he had simply failed to mention it to his accountant. "So you forgot!" thundered Volz. "I didn't forget," said Edwards. "That implies a conscious attempt to remember...
...docks some 4,000 illegal shipments abroad, including crates destined for the Soviet Union full of C-130 transport aircraft parts and satellite scanners. "The Russians are sweating," declares Customs Service Commissioner William von Raab. "They used to be able to carry off all our technology by the truckload. Now we're making them pay more and take longer...