Word: featherless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faced with that future, Featherless fights back...
Just before Jimmy Carter met last week with auto industry leaders, TIME Contributor John Skow received a phone call from his friend Featherless, the pundit who wants the Democrats to nominate Franklin Delano Roosevelt and argues that, given the rest of the field, no one will notice that he is dead. Featherless had an equally practical proposal for solving two economic problems-the nation...
...Your credit-card mess?" Featherless had been despondent the last time I saw him, because Visa, MasterCard and American Express had taken away his plastic money. "I've been declared a cardless person," he had said then, pouring ashes from his backyard grill on his head. "I'm a man without a card." He had the haunted look of a traveler condemned to shuttle reservationless between Marriott and Holiday Inn, with no Magic Fingers to strum his backbone...
...said Featherless. "I overreacted to that. I was going to take out a loan and pay all my charge-card bills, even though they were only three months overdue. Then I realized that the Government will handle...
...said Featherless. "It would be the end of the G.O.P. as we know...