Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even Hans Christian Andersen could invent a presidential candidate as ugly-duckling as Simon: floppy earlobes, horn-rimmed glasses, a putty-like face and a bow tie. Yet the rumble-voiced Illinois Senator has magically emerged as a swan in the Democratic race, partly by playing on his rumpled lack of glamour. Staring into the camera at the end of the first Democratic debate in July, he intoned, "If you want a slick packaged product, I'm not your candidate. If you want someone who levels with you, who you can trust, I am your candidate." Something in that simple...
...weeks the 158 member countries of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization had been locked in a battle over choosing a new leader. Senegal's Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, 66, was seeking his third six- year term as UNESCO director-general, despite complaints that his previous stints were characterized by profligate spending and anti-Western bias. The U.S. angrily withdrew from UNESCO in 1984, and Britain pulled out a year later. Last week the organization's executive board chose a compromise candidate, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, 53, a former Spanish Minister for Education and Science and onetime UNESCO deputy...
Mayor's victory was assured when the Soviets, longtime backers of M'Bow's, told him it was time to step aside. The U.S. and Britain have no immediate plans to rejoin UNESCO, but they will nonetheless be watching Mayor's actions for signs of reform...
...departure from the organizing drive clears the way for the local group that rejected UAW parentage in a bitter confrontation in 1985, the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW). Last January HUCTW, which has been calling for the UAW to bow out since the split, affiliated with another national parent, the American Federation of State, Country and Municipal Employees (AFSCME...
...para-publishing phenomenon. Though each undoubtedly thinks of himself as a writer alone with his thoughts and technical problems, they are literary celebrities and, from the vantage of their handlers, basic parts of an entertainment package. And it does not hurt if their editors can tie a bow. "Bright Lights had a winning quality, and it had it in spades, more than any book I have ever read," says Gary Fisketjon, leaving the impression that even casual acquaintance with the novel (a 250- year-old art form) is unnecessary baggage in today's paper chase. Fisketjon, 33, McInerney's close...