Word: bowe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Paul Simon (D-IL): Mr. Chairman, things are getting out of hand. I assure you, Judge Reinhold, being the only man here wearing a bow-tie, I know what it means to feel like a clown. But let me remind you, these hearings are no circus. I have before me, Judge, a very damaging document. It is a letter sent to your home many years ago by your third grade teacher. She reports that you ate, in one sitting, an entire box of crayola crayons. Do you know that it is illegal to eat public property...
...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...
...world peace" and "genuine world free trade" and faulted the Republicans for their backsliding on "civil rights" and their antilabor sentiments symbolized by the Taft-Hartley Act. The same thoughts and phrases echo in his speeches today. What distinguishes him in the current campaign is that, from his bow tie to his emphasis on creating jobs, Simon, 58, has remained faithful to Truman and to bedrock Democratic Party values...
There remains, to be sure, a certain implausibility about Simon as the eventual nominee. Image is part of the problem; unfashionable bow ties and horn-rims can captivate a limited number of anti-chic contrarians, but they can make a candidate seem quirky to others. So is ideology; Simon's dovish rhetoric seems unlikely to play well in the South, even though Iowa voters respond to applause lines like "I think the choice is the arms race or the human race." Simon may confound liberal orthodoxy by his support of a balanced-budget amendment, but the centerpiece of his domestic...
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...