Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kemp assiduously avoids labels. Is he conservative, moderate, right of center? "All of the above," he answers. "I think the worst thing in politics is to be taken for granted, to be predictable, to allow people to put you in a box." To keep the pundits guessing, he calls himself a "bleeding-heart conservative" and a "small l, small d liberal democrat." With a John F. Kennedy haircut and a surfeit of vigor, Kemp is the only member of the House who has built a truly national following. No one, however, has been elected directly from the House...
...that have included adding new colors and giving Haiyan shuts their first brand names: Tangren (Tang Dynasty Man), Shuangyan (Double Swallow) and Sanmao (a character in a popular cartoon strip). Says Bu: "When I die, I want no wreaths, just the logos of these shirt brands placed on my box of ashes...
...interview Ron Reagan, the President's son, on the Republican Convention floor under the signpost of the New York delegation. But his interviewee, it turned out, was many yards away, under the standard of New York's alternates. Wallace ran to the Reagan seats in the VIP box, then circled the floor. By the time the misunderstanding was discovered, the "window" of open air time had passed...
Burton was not the greatest actor of his generation, although many of his peers were convinced that he could have been. Nor was he the greatest success at the box office, although 20 years ago he was almost certainly the highest-paid actor in the world. But for the better part of the '60s and '70s, the years of his romance with and marriages to Elizabeth Taylor-the Elizabethan years, as he later called them-he was one of the most celebrated men on the planet. Amplified by the resources of modern media, the lovemaking and the battles...
...breaks my heart to suggest this," Safire continued, "but the time has come for Ms." The Times did not agree. Safire's editors took the unusual step of inserting a box into his column, in which they dismissed Ms. as "business-letter coinage" that is "too contrived for news writing...