Word: butters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Certainly no one can make a living at mailing draft notices. Political cartooning, though it is woefully two-diminsional, is as close as I can come to daily satire and still afford my peanut butter addiction. I believe in the power of a striking visual image. I believe in the power of satire to make people think twice. But I also believe editorial cartooning requires people to have at least thought about something once before I get to them...
...dieting in pursuit of our dreams. This is nothing new. We have been on diets before. In fact, I was on a diet for at least 10 hours a day, every day, for months. Every night, around 11 p.m., right after eating about 16 Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, I went on a diet. And I stayed on that diet religiously until breakfast the next morning. Sometimes I even stayed on it until lunch, especially if I had slept through breakfast...
...Dinner. I have a salad without dressing. And a peanut-butter and jelly sandwich. And an ice cream cone. I am still hungry when I go back to my room...
...pension rules, hospital visitation rights and laws giving family members the authority to make medical decisions and funeral arrangements. "We are not talking about symbols here," says Thomas Stoddard, executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a well-organized gay-rights group. "These are bread-and-butter issues of basic importance to individuals...
...atmosphere was hardly non-partisan. "We've been comparing the food," said Paula Lovejoy, a campaign worker for the Independent slate. "We had peanut butter and jelly from the [Working Committee for a Cambridge Rainbow,"] she said of the fledgling group that backs radical reform of city politics. But she added, "You'd think they [the Rainbow] would come up with something more creative," pointing to one Indepedent candidate who prepared a Portuguese speciality for the polls...