Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...courthouse, was very crowded. Li Mei explained it was because everyone had come to hear the criminal sentences. "Peasant, age 21," was all I understood of the loudspeaker announcement. We walked past the crowds and bought tickets for the park. I taught my cousins how to drive bumper cars. We went or five or six rounds, got tired and decided to go home. As we walked to our bikes, lime green-uniformed police officers, on foot and motorcycle, pushed us aside, clearing the way for an entourage. "They're going to bring the prisoners out," Chong-yi said Car after...
...real world, the new mood was manifested by all the women flocking to gun stores and subscribing to Women & Guns, the magazine that tells you how to accessorize a neat little sidearm. And, without any prompting from NOW, thousands of women are sporting bumper stickers identifying themselves as BEYOND BITCH and buying T shirts that say TOUGH ENOUGH or make unflattering comparisons between cucumbers...
...this case. The affairs of Whitewater and its partners -- the Clintons, James McDougal, the owner of a failed Arkansas savings and loan, and his wife Susan -- were so convoluted that they defy quick summary. Even the questions that the dealings raise are too complex to fit on a bumper sticker. The press and television paid almost no attention until recently, and then largely because it developed that a file relating to Whitewater had been removed from the office of White House counsel Vincent Foster after he committed suicide last July (that file is one of the papers Justice subpoenaed...
...Freud's nudes, any more than some feminists do today. These figures, splayed under the inquisitorial electric light and the downward gaze of the artist, are the mainstay of his work, and the fierceness with which they reject the softening conventions of the "studio nude" has provoked a bumper crop of balderdash about Freud's supposed misogyny and sexism. (Freud's own riposte, in a recent interview, was terse: "I think the idea of misogyny is a stimulant to feminists, and it's rather like anti-Semites looking for Jewish noses everywhere...
...point, the bumper stickers are right. Guns don't kill people. People kill people. But the slogans stop short of the obvious question. Without easy access to guns of all kinds, could Americans go on killing one another at anything like the present rate? When the noise of gunfire stopped on the Long Island Rail Road last week, it was the sound of that question that rose in its place. It brought other pressing questions with it. How far do we go? What formula can rein in guns while permitting their legitimate use? And how much will gun control reduce...