Word: collars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deterioration has taken place in compassion, in caring for others in the name of self-interest; look at downsizing, an increase in broken families, a move to the safe suburbs from dangerous cities, the rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer. So why should a working-class, blue-collar family support a system in which others can live off the government while they struggle to survive? A deterioration has taken place in the promise made to others across the seas; what happened to "give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses?" I guess no one has looked...
McGregor, 25, has reason to enjoy his busy life. Even before graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he was handed a big role in Dennis Potter's 1993 TV series Lipstick on Your Collar. His dreamboat looks and what Emma director Douglas McGrath calls "a boyish, endearing playfulness" have won him leads on TV (in the BBC's Scarlet and Black) and in seven films (including Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book, as a full-frontal demon lover) over the past two years. With Trainspotting, McGregor looks set to take Hollywood, if he cares to. Ralph Fiennes...
...such dissidents special attention. When the New York Herald Tribune, which had helped found the modern G.O.P., picked L.B.J. in 1964, it was a stunning symbol of moderate-liberal disaffection. When AFL-CIO President George Meany refused to back George McGovern in 1972, it signaled the disaffection of blue-collar Democrats. In 1980 I became convinced that Reagan would win big--not by the polls, which were then showing a close race, but by Reagan endorsements from onetime antiwar Senator Eugene McCarthy and from a former leader of Tammany Hall, the home of the old New York Democratic machine...
JOHN KERRY (D., Mass.), above left --Mirror with framed Kerry wedding announcement from Mr. and Mrs. A. Schwarzenegger --Porcelain watermelon wedding gift --Silver collar for red wine --Antique ketchup and soy bottles...
...professor of government and sociology at Harvard, who believes Edelman must inspire "the missing middle," the working parents stressed out by juggling work and family. One reason why children's issues are likely to become a prominent campaign issue is that both parties are working hard to attract blue-collar mothers. "Women are more likely to vote the family issues and want to be sure children get the right start," says Stanley Greenberg, pollster for the Democratic National Committee...