Word: bumpers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suppressed fears of many offspring are targeted by the popular bumper sticker, displayed only partly in jest, that boasts, WE'RE SPENDING OUR CHILDREN'S INHERITANCE. A 1991 survey conducted by the Gediman Research Group found that 64% of affluent Americans are more concerned with enjoying a comfortable retirement than leaving behind a sizable estate. "I'm free of guilt," says William McCarty, 66, a former grain and cattle farmer from Sheldon, Iowa, who has traveled to China and Russia since retiring. Next month he's off to Germany and Italy. "I keep telling my sons that...
THIS HAS BEEN A BUMPER YEAR for Twyla Tharp. In January she staged a triumphant show of her quirky, inventive choreography at Manhattan's City Center. Next came a stint in Hollywood doing the dances for I'll Do Anything (to be released in 1993), and then the publication of her intelligent, candid-to-a-fault autobiography, Push Comes to Shove (Bantam; $24.50). That's enough for most busy artists, but energy is Tharp's signature both in choreography and in life. She has now renewed her partnership with Mikhail Baryshnikov for a 24-city national tour that started...
...requested and received a pile of glossy recruiting brochures from the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marines. (The Marines even included "Semper Fi" and "Marines" bumper stickers with their packet. Pretty classy...
...Campaign bumper sticker...
Bitterness toward the entrenched Washington elite and anxiety over the economy have produced a bumper crop of unconventional challengers. Major-party candidates for Congress run the gamut from a gay Republican activist in Los Angeles to a former Black Panther in Chicago to a Wyoming ophthalmologist who promises to return to private life as soon as Congress passes health-care legislation. And many incumbents, who normally trot confidently to re- election, are running scared in the face of this unexpected assault. At least 150 newcomers are expected on Capitol Hill next year. That number includes 85 seats in the House...