Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many of us have glorified process over purpose, confused assumption with fact, were awed by money and organization instead of meaning. The American presidential political industry is now a thing involving hundreds of millions of dollars, jets, computers, stage sets, packaged ideas, academic theories, bloated egos and brass bands. It forms an immense inverted pyramid whose point comes to bear on the mind of each voter, where the thing often breaks down - as it did in New Hampshire...
...going back with hair," deadpanned the un-Bondingly balding Sean Connery, 53, as he donned a Wonder Woman wig given to him by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. As the band struck up 007's theme, the club's "Man of the Year" got the traditional brass pot, as well as a dart board displaying a picture of Roger Moore, James Bond's alternate alter ego. Connery, however, would probably rather be throwing darts at his former financial adviser Kenneth Richards, who allegedly put millions of Connery's into an unsecured French real estate deal...
...considering dropping out," Glenn said, surrounded by his campaign brass. "I'm going to the convention in San Francisco and I'm going to be the nominee...
Cambridge Police said they stopped Richard Alexander as he drove in the wrong direction on Mass. Ave in Harvard Square Police said they found a set of brass knuckles with a blade attached in the car Officers alleged that Alexander had glassy eyes and spoke with slurred speech...
...York City's Trump Tower, Chicago's Water Tower Place, Houston's Galleria or any of several other vacuously luxuriant shopping centers that seem designed for a latter-day Marie Antoinette. Here the architects became tacky in an orgy of salmon-colored tile and Spanish marble, brass and rosewood, fountains and vegetation and, naturally, a waterfall sculpture. Copley Place's two-level shopping mall is a catalogue of high-priced interior-decorator clich...