Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Horton case is being used to paint Dukakis with that most damaging ) liberal stereotype: soft on crime. George Bush has taken to citing his differences with the Governor by saying, "I don't like the idea of letting murderers out of jail." One G.O.P. strategist has proposed a bumper sticker reading, DUKAKIS TO RAPIST: HAVE A NICE WEEKEND...
Ordering drug offenders to register with the police, revoking their driver's licenses, marking their cars with bumper stickers. Requiring federally subsidized landlords to certify that their dwellings are drug free. These and other stringent proposals to combat the drug epidemic are under consideration by the National Drug Policy Board, headed by Attorney General Edwin Meese...
...laugh at each other! We're here to learn!" scolds the redhead. Silence. Then a few whispers in Zulu. "Heee, heee, haaa, haaa!" sings the teacher. More giggles. When class is finally dismissed, the kids clatter up a narrow staircase, whistling and ululating. The doors are plastered with bumper stickers: KIDS ZONE, BABYLAND BLVD, I LOVE MY BOYFRIEND...
...frightening bumper sticker slogan was born, characteristic of an attitude arising from the stultifying pattern of major events coming from and leading to nowhere. Kurt Vonnegut's deadening commentary on Dresden in Slaughterhouse Five "So it goes," was transposed into: "Shit happens...
...people cared and cut through the minutiae--a Supreme Court seat was denied to a man who had spoken out against civil rights and denounced landmark equal access legislation. But in an irony that was befitting for the year, and surely gave pleasure to the cynics who invented that bumper sticker slogan, Bork was successfully followed by a jurist who, once confirmed, cast a vote challenging the core of federal civil rights doctrine...