Word: flags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Krauss and Capiola spoke of rivalry, intensity and pride. They mentioned cheering sections comprised of such esteemed personalities as house masters and senior tutors. Yale came waving a big college flag, the one that was seen the following day flecking the Yale section of the stadium...
...five years since the tricolor flag of Russia replaced the hammer and sickle flying over the Kremlin, Moscow has made a number of difficult, courageous and correct choices, both from its own standpoint and from ours. Democracy is taking root. The rudiments of a market economy and a financial infrastructure are now in place. The ruble is stable; inflation is under control; the private sector produces 70% of the gross domestic product...
Paul Manafort, a Washington lobbyist who had run the convention for Dole, picked up the flag after Sipple left the field. The picture was grim. After Labor Day, Bob Dole was worse off than when he started. By early September, according to his own poll, Dole was actually 6 points behind where he was in August. Manafort drafted a 20-page memo dated Sept. 5 titled "Dole Campaign Strategy Document," in which he wrote, "The strategy for the campaign must be finalized now...Otherwise, we will be adrift without a compass...
...hours into the run, however, Dole was almost out of gas. After rolling through a Michigan truck stop, a Newark, New Jersey, diner and a Philadelphia nightclub, he found himself in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Saturday, free-associating at a noontime rally--from Eisenhower to the war on drugs, from flag burning to Indogate, from partial-birth abortion to Boutros Boutros-Ghali. After months in search of a coherent message, Dole had returned to the splintered themes and message fragments of the primaries. There was only one difference: in March, it was good enough...
...Johns' Flag, 1955, a flag or a painting? The American flag is the best-known abstraction in the world; is a painting of an abstraction a representation? The questions twist back to Rene Magritte's famous brainteaser, the painting of a pipe with "This is not a pipe" written above it (of course not, dummy; it's a painting). Flag is designed like a flag, but it's made of paint, not cloth, and it cannot "fly"; it is static, stretched, rigid. You are meant to pay attention to its surface, which never happens with a real flag. This surface...