Word: columnist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gloria Steinem flew to Texas all the way from New York City to call Senate candidate Kay Bailey Hutchison a "female impersonator." Actress Annie Potts of Designing Women pooh-poohed the Republican's vague stance on abortion rights, saying, "She's just the same old thing in a skirt." Columnist Molly Ivins hung the epithet "Breck girl" on her, comparing the way the candidate tossed her blond hair to the slow-motion antics of models in the shampoo commercial. But Hutchison, the Texas state treasurer, survived those and many other attacks. Last week she defeated Democrat Bob Krueger, winning...
...Schwarzenegger." Late in the campaign, young Republicans paraded outside Krueger's headquarters in leather jackets proclaiming June 5 "Termination Day." Krueger staff members ran out to retaliate, beating themselves over the head with notebooks yelling "It's not okay! It's not okay!" Texas' most famous syndicated political columnist, meanwhile, zinged both candidates. "It's just a real boring race between two incredible stiffs," said Ivins. "They've campaigned on cliches and image...
...Hackney "very much stands up for complaints from the left but not from the right." In April almost all 14,000 copies of the Daily Pennsylvanian were taken and destroyed by black students protesting "blatant . . . perpetuation of institutional racism" by the newspaper -- specifically the views of a right-wing columnist -- and the university at large. The paper declared it was "betrayed" by Hackney's reaction, a bland statement that "two important university values, diversity and open expression, seem to be in conflict...
...Civil War-era South's treatment of Blacks when two springs ago Bridget A. Kerrigan '91 hung a Confederate flag in her window. The protests that ensued made national news, and in a book that ensued made national news, and in a book that appeared last summer syndicated columnist Nat Hentoff painted Kerrigan as a martyr of political correctness...
...early to write Bill Clinton off . . . he is famously resilient." -- Columnist Anthony Lewis, NEW YORK TIMES, last Friday after the House passed Clinton's tax bill...