Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bumper stickers, petitions, and literature on Colin L. Powell greeted those who turned out for the meeting, which was held in Emerson Hall...
Casting aside pretenders, the Dole Campaign weighed in with its own official World Wide Web page Tuesday night. Among the features: "Dole Coast to Coast," "Dole Interactive" and a way to get a free bumper sticker. The Dole site comes partially in response to the parody "Bob Dole for President" site that has already reserved a more prestigious Internet address (http://www.dole96.org/). (Their slogan: "Dole. The ripe man for the job"). Dole is a recent convert to the Internet, following in the footsteps of pages created by his competitors, Phil Gramm, Pat Buchanan and the red plaid page that...
WITH ANY GREAT RIVER, THERE IS A LONGING to find the source. In Ripken's case, it is an immaculately groomed, ranch-style home in Aberdeen, where he and his siblings grew up and where his folks, Vi and Cal Sr., still spend their days in semi-retirement: golf, bumper pool, tomato plants. Senior's tomatoes are such things of beauty that he could probably make a fortune selling them at a road stand, maybe even under a sign that reads SON-TRIED TOMATOES...
...cities all over the U.S., this gentle elegy was replicated. More than 4,000 people massed in Los Angeles' Griffith Park, passing out LONG LIVE THE DEAD bumper stickers in Merry Prankster green and creating a huge circle of drum players and mourner-celebrants. One sign read, "Fare thee well, fare thee well, we miss you more than words can tell." In Manhattan's Central Park, 700 Deadheads gathered under the full moon at the memorial to another fallen idol, John Lennon. In Washington, where more than 300 souls converged on the Lincoln Memorial, Rush Jones, 25, spoke his anxiety...
Seems to you you've heard this song before? Yes. But it is very sweetly sung here. Khouri writes characters, not tracts; dialogue, not bumper stickers; and she has the good sense to let the men have their say--notably Eddie, who makes Grace understand that her distraction contributed to his wanderlust...