Word: eyeful
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Kerry, currently lieutenant governor, has made few missteps in his 40 years on this earth, and in his 14 years in the public eye. He fought in the Vietnam War, won three purple hearts, a bronze star, and a silver star, then returned home to lead the veterans movement against the war. In 1971, his question, "How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" became a rallying cry for the anti-war movement. After an unsuccessful Congressional bid, Kerry went to law school, served as first assistant district attorney in Middlesex County...
...stage mouthing lines written by others and with only a vague idea of what was going on in the alley behind the theater. When television brought the two together, Mondale unabashedly climbed right up on the stage, put on makeup and devoted his energies to modulating his voice, making eye contact with the camera and using the right body language. His principal purpose was not to explain himself but to confuse, anger and outscore his opponent. Show biz and boxing had claimed one more presidential hopeful...
...today's King's Road, he wants his clothes worn by anyone who likes "playing with clothes, taking from them what interests you, no matter what the origins." In fact, as most store buyers know, a Gaultier collection is made up of about equal parts of eye-grabbing eccentricities and conventional ideas, "classics with different proportions. A young person won't put them together the same way as a 50-or 60-year...
...satellite; John F. Kennedy's 1961 decision to put people on the moon; and Richard M. Nixon's 1969 plan to do away with the disposable space craft and develop the shuttle. The next stop. NASA officials say, is to develop a permanent U.S. presence in space with an eye toward commercialization...
...such, this recovery is doomed to fall through the trap door of 200-plus billion dollar budget deficits extending as far as the economic forecaster's eye can see. The runaway deficit is, in the words of Democratic economic guru Felix Rohatyn, "a prescription for national bankruptcy," the threat of which to our well-being is matched in direness only by the myopia with which Reagan is approaching the problem...