Word: carpetbagging
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MARY POPPINS WAS PRETTY, AND SHE SANG. WHAT HAS NANNY MCPHEE GOT ON THAT? She has a magic stick. She makes space. She's the opposite of Mary Poppins, who turns up and shows off and starts pulling things out of her carpetbag. This movie is a western. There is a situation of chaos. Then a stranger rides in and--using unorthodox methods--sorts out the situation, restores balance and then has to leave. People say, "Is it like Mary Poppins?" Actually, it's like Shane...
ELIZABETH DOLE Fave for Helms' vacancy packs her carpetbag. More interested in the seat or the scooter...
...more recent. It is the result of two baleful new developments. First, star players don't stay with their teams. With free agency, the great players move around, making it impossible--indeed, almost foolish--for a fan to invest hopes and dreams and even interest in zillionaires who carpetbag at the drop of $20 million...
...peace in the glitzy Hamptons, the Clinton juggernaut is setting up shop in the almost equally tony Westchester town of Chappaqua. The First Family announced Thursday they?d paid $1.7 million to acquire a five-bedroom house built in 1889, giving Hillary Rodham Clinton a place to unpack her carpetbag and get busy on her bid for New York?s Senate seat. But residents of the tranquil New York City suburb needn?t fear being turned into an extension of Pennsylvania Avenue. "As long as Bill Clinton is in the White House, this house will remain strictly an occasional weekend...
...good to be the First Lady, isn't it? But now that she's formed an exploratory committee (and thus satisfied the folks at the Federal Election Commission), the only candidate in history with more family-name recognition than George W. Bush is going to unpack her carpetbag and spend some time in the Empire State. Hillary will kick off a "summerlong listening tour" of New York on Wednesday at the farm of outgoing senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, according to campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson. "Over the next month Mrs. Clinton will travel throughout the state, meeting with New Yorkers...