Word: bauer
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...climate of the Boston they inhabit. Sadly, life and art could never coincide in Dog Days, as life for Reilly and his cohorts is too predictable. At one point Reilly wishes that he and his girlfriend could be a happy couple, "the kind you see in an Eddie Bauer catalogue, healthy and well-scrubbed nondysfunctional Eddie Bauer couples do." If only Reilly realized how close he and his little clique were to the so-called Eddie Bauer ideal...
...teachers go and scale back art and music classes. Last year the Inn at Willow Pond, a major corporate conference center, gave $25,000 to charity. This year, when the charities called, "we told 'em to call Montpelier--all that money went to Act 60 taxes," says owner Ron Bauer. Even angrier are affluent parents who moved to postage-stamp towns in part for the excellent schools. "This is Marxism," howls novelist John Irving, whose son is a Dorset kindergartner. "It's leveling everything by decimating what works... It's that vindictive 'We've suffered, and now we're going...
...Barry Goldwater came out in favor of lifting the ban on gays in the military -- on the exquisitely conservative grounds that sexuality was none of the government's business. The tongue-clucking from the right was deafening. Gary Bauer, the president of the Family Research Council and now a kingmaker of the GOP's religious right, lamented publicly that "it's sad ? Sen. Goldwater was once the authentic voice of American conservatism." Ah, but Goldwater didn't change his stripes, the GOP did. Bauer is the "authentic voice" of something else entirely: a radical faction that is fast taking over...
...Gary L. Bauer, president of the Family Research Council, and another recent ARCO speaker, went further, demanding Clinton fire Blumenthal...
...would not allow a presidential aide to so slander the beliefs of Catholics or Jews," Bauer wrote in a letter to the president. "We would not permit racially insensitive remarks. It must be no different when the targets of bigotry are evangelical Christians...