Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston Globe, which is giving the Veep race the kind of front-page, box- score coverage usually reserved for the Red Sox, has anointed various candidates as leader of the pack; the most recent was Albert Gore. By all appearances, the Tennessee Senator would seem to have disqualified himself by his attacks during the New York primary when he called Dukakis "very dangerous" and "irresponsible" on nuclear arms issues -- which could prove tougher to live down than Bush's description of Reagan's "voodoo economics." But Gore made nice enough in his postprimary endorsement to be invited to Brookline...
Principato charges that every day for the past year his supervisor, Carol Wotschak, chief medical technologist at UHS, has put his mail into a specimen box containing human excrement. Wotschak declined to discuss the case...
...Bandito roles to stardom in La Strada and Zorba the Greek. The signal film was West Side Story. It said Latins were no longer domesticated birds of colorful plumage; now they were a social problem, a political cause set to barrio rhythms. What kind of guarantee was that for box-office gold...
...water level of the inland Aral Sea, which has been depleted over the years by efforts to irrigate the arid republics of Central Asia. The chief of a new environmental protection committee, Fyodor Morgun, blamed the "ill-considered drive to build gigantic plants" for a Pandora's box of ecological problems, including air and water pollution...
...produce a more generous art, less timid, less parochial. Hispanic Americans do not have a pure Latin American art to offer. Expect bastard themes. Expect winking ironies, comic conclusions. For Hispanics live on this side of the border, where Kraft manufactures Mexican-style Velveeta, and where Jack in the Box serves Fajita Pita. Expect marriage. We will change America even as we will be changed. We will disappear with you into a new miscegenation...