Word: whaled
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Next Step to work out. When Sen. Ted Kennedy spoke at the Democratic convention, he implored them to trust their original instincts and to continue using their God-given talents and intellects in search of ways to overcome the handicaps. But people thought that Jonah had caught the whale to Nineveh too late. Ronald Reagan had already come ashore, and he was teaching the Simple Plan...
...divorce [from Actor Rex Harrison], and I thought that any new play would be a rehash of something I had done." Not Sarah. During the course of the show, the 66-year-old actress will age from 36 to 74, lose a leg, walk on the back of a whale and nearly drown in Niagara Falls. Says a slightly apprehensive Palmer: "I decided it would be cowardly to refuse this...
...abruptly, a quicksilver change is occurring in the course of all three. Laments Los Angeles Attorney John Mailer: "People don't understand the economy. Even the economists don't understand it. I don't have any confidence that any of the candidates would make a whale of a difference. None of them sounds too good...
...vine roots with its mouth outlined in dogs' teeth and its scalp matted with human hair, could coexist with a high order of technical skill. What survived the auto-da-fe in greater quantity was decorative art of lesser iconographic content: not gods, but feather robes, bone or whale-tooth ornaments, and the beautifully carved wooden containers, irregular in their polished silkiness, from which the Hawaiians ate their poi, a sort of tropical office paste made of taro roots...
...have knocked a hole in the wall, climbed outside their totalistic system and marched angrily around it demanding things. That is very embarrassing. It is also, communistically speaking, impossible. It is a little like the old Second City comedy routine in which Ahab thunderously demands, "Hast seen the white whale?" and the other ship's captain calls back, "Yeah. We killed him yesterday." What happens now to the metaphysical plot, to the primordial story? Communism, after all, loses ideological face if the workers, the stars of Marx's historical drama, step so radically out of their assigned role...