Word: bucketeer
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...time to thank the former President for his defense of public servants and his denunciation of the outrageous language in a fund-raising letter by the National Rifle Association. In a now famous letter, Bush excoriated the N.R.A. for railing against federal agents as "jackbooted thugs ... wearing Nazi bucket helmets and black storm-trooper uniforms." Bush then resigned his life membership...
...advocating the overthrow of the government? I am advocating cleansing. If you combined everybody in the United States of America that you would even estimate to be on the other side, you would only have a drop in the bucket compared to the masses in rebellion. Why are we sitting here...
...Thursday at five o'clock Harvard Square bustles with Cantabridgian commuters eager to put an end to their work days. But for twenty-five year-old Tony Throne the work is only beginning. Throne, a local street performer, pounds on his drum set--a homemade contraption of plastic buckets and dented metal casserole dishes--in front of the Coop. Though most people hurry by Throne with scarcely a glance, no one within a three-block-radius is oblivious to the seemingly incessant pounding of his bass bucket. Pimply pit rats nod their heads in cool appraisal of the rhythm...
Tony Throne offers a more aggressive assessmentof the necessity for the street performer tomaintain faith in self. "If you listen to whateverybody else says, you ain't getting nowhere.Everybody's trying to hold you down." The drummer,who claims he got the idea of bucket drums fromhis "cousin Larry, the 501 commercial guy in NewYork City," is currently working on an albumslated for release this summer...
...truth--that answers a question unasked since the dawn of literature: What is a mortgage bond? The answer in Bombardiers (Random House; 319 pages; $22) seems to be: That which the selling of makes your teeth itch. The first sentence of Po Bronson's desperate, funny, booklong rant at bucket-shop marketing of financial chaos neatly pelletizes his entire volume: "It was a filthy profession, but the money was addicting, and one addiction led to another, and they were all going to hell...