Word: coate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...something of a political prophet, Phillips staked out his reputation for foresight in 1969. Having worked for the Nixon campaign, he argued in The Emerging Republican Majority that Republicans would come to dominate presidential politics by bashing the liberal Establishment and praising middle-class, church-going, penny-pinching, cloth coat-wearing values...
...easy to forget this elemental fact when Woody and Mia -- once filmdom's most ostentatiously reclusive couple -- took the stand at the custody trial. He wore his trademark rumpled tweed sport coat, prompting observers to wonder, Was it the same one every day, or did he own many jackets that just looked the same? She favored severe blazers and blouses buttoned all the way up. Costumes aside, both tried to give the impression that the other was unfit to be a parent. In large measure, they both succeeded...
Daumier's work does not only focus on the king: other government officials were also the artist's targets. The drawing "D'Argout" exaggerates the long nose of its subject, the chief censor. Beneath the image is a coat of arms featuring the nose and a pair of scissors, which represent the office of censor. This common practice of embellishing one aspect of a person's features is known as "portrait charge...
...Children's Television Act of 1990, stations are required to air at least some programming that serves the "educational and informational needs" of children. The trick, of course, is figuring out what constitutes educational fare. A number of stations tried to satisfy the rules by putting a fresh coat of public-service paint on rusty old entertainment shows. Among the programs thrust under the education rubric, according to a study by the Washington-based Center for Media Education, were Super Mario Brothers (cited for demonstrating the importance of "self-confidence"), The Jetsons (for teaching kids what life might be like...
...Safety Walk. Perhaps some of the people no longer calling were those who used the driving escort as a free taxi service--some callers have responded to the driving escort dispatches with the following rejoinders: "I'm not wearing the right shoes," "I'm not wearing a coat," "I've had a long day" and "I've always gotten rides and I want that to continue." The Escort must prioritize, some members of the Harvard community need to travel from the Law School area to across the river; some students need to go from the Dudley Co-Ops to Mather...