There is Jo-Jo ( Gary Wilmes, a Maxwell veteran ), who wears an industrial uniform and many keys on his belt; his younger brother, Freddie ( Robert Torres ), who has the deadest stare this side of a morgue, and a fellow identified as the Promoter ( Christopher Sullivan ), who is silent for so long that he might be mistaken for a George Segal statue.
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By the mid-1990s, Dallas'leaders presided over one of the nation's deadest downtowns _ so dead that even Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk, gazing out his own office window, couldn't resist saying, " You go on a tour of downtown and its attractions now, and you ask, ` What can we do with the other 45 minutes of the hour ? "'
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It's a forbidding role, as Ellis points out, that makes Washington susceptible to the most reflexive Freudian impulses on the part of historians : on one hand, a desire to place him on a patriarchal pedestal assembled from filial encomiums and dubious legends ( i . e ., the old cherry tree fallacy ); on the other, an Oedipal urge to dismiss him as " the deadest, whitest male in American history ."
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(Originally, a single set of the Democratic documents were opened to all reporters'scrutiny in the traditional deadest moment of the news week, last Friday evening, but then copies were made available in the face of complaints . ) When all else fails, the final instruction is to " apologize and move on, " but with a caveat : " This works well for small problems but not for large ones ."
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I just said, " Oh my God, Holy XXXX " Tears just burst out of my eyes, I couldn't believe it, and I said, if I ever get to survive this disease by any chance, and get a job again in trucking, I'm going to record this part, and show it to my next Employer, and tell them, THAT WAS ME EXACTLY . The deadest, most hopeless, in the graveyard with tombstone and coffin already picked out case ready for my funeral person in the whole wide world coming back to life and defeating death completely UNSTOPPABLE.
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Each man thought himself the genuine spokesman of the future; each denounced the other as a political heretic . " In a 1949 speech, Dewey criticized Taft and his followers by saying that " we have in our party some fine, high-minded patriotic people who honestly oppose farm price supports, unemployment insurance, old age benefits, slum clearance, and other social programs . . . these people believe in a laissez-faire society and look back wistfully to the miscalled'good old days'of the nineteenth century . . . if such efforts to turn back the clock are actually pursued, you can bury the Republican Party as the deadest pigeon in the country . " He added that people who opposed such social programs should " go out and try to get elected in a typical American community and see what happens to them.
