Word: dwarfs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year ago, Michael Dukakis was just another Democratic dwarf, a successful but obscure Governor who wanted to become President. But money, as the song goes, changes everything. Last June the campaign held its first major fund raiser at Boston's Park Plaza Hotel. The take: $2.1 million, three times as much as any Democrat had ever received in a single event. The campaign privately set an ambitious goal of collecting $6.5 million in 1987, then ) proceeded to rake in $10 million. It made Dukakis a front runner before any votes were cast. "Money," says Bob Farmer, the Governor's fund...
...opinion. Was this an example of the celebrated "death wish," or perhaps just another instance of his need to be the boss? Macht nichts. The nose doctor operated and botched the job. Freud was left hemorrhaging on a cot in a small room that he shared with a retarded dwarf. The fellow summoned a nurse, though it is unlikely that he realized he was saving a giant...
...kill me! All in all, I am the busiest long-shnozzed, four-toothed, 3-ft. 2-in. creature with burnt-siena fur anywhere on earth. Of course, there aren't many talking life forms here that look like me. I am continually being mistaken for an anteater, a dwarf orangutan or an aardvark, which on Melmac we encountered only in crossword puzzles...
Beginning with David Letterman and Johnny Carson, the first reaction of many was to make Hart the butt of a national laugh-in. A front-page Des Moines Register cartoon showed Hart wearing a dwarf costume labeled SLEAZY, as he pushed the other six candidates off a cliff. Hart was also tagged by cartoonists as HORNY and RANDY. A popular Denver radio show held an hour-long phone-in of the latest jokes about him, most of which tended toward the tasteless. One caller said the best Hart joke was that "Gary is running for President...
...limits." The magazine is already available in 26 cities coast to coast, and the staff is working up a pilot for a possible half-hour series next fall on ABC. Meantime, there are growing indications that Spy is drawing blood from its target audience. A flack for the "churlish dwarf billionaire" Laurence Tisch was moved to call the editorial offices and point out, "Look, Larry is not technically, medically, a dwarf." Next issue, the technicality was duly noted, with appropriate sarcasm. Spy is not the kind of magazine ever to get , hung up on a technical foul...