Word: flags
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...wellspring of genius entrepreneurs and shameless hucksters alike, which is why the flashy Times Square stunt is a perfect way for Branson to signal the next phase of his U.S. expansion. Says Ian Duffell, president of Virgin Retail Group in North America: "We've planted our flag here...
...Swing and a hypnotically undulating Pagin' the Devil), the "cutting sessions" (Yeah, Man, a fiery face-off between the tenor saxes of Redman and Craig Handy), the crescendoing call-and-response riff patterns (I Left My Baby, whipped to a fervent pitch by Curtis Fowlkes' swaggering trombone), the galloping flag wavers (Lafayette, a raucous vehicle for trumpet soloists Nicholas Payton, James Zollar and Olu Dara) and the rococo after-hours ballads (I Surrender Dear, in which James Carter tricks up his solo with so many growl tones, glissandos, squeaking harmonics and feathery flutter-tonguings that it begins to seem...
Wedge hypotheticals are opportunities for candidates to paste labels on their opponents in the guise of discussing issues. In 1988 flag burning didn't force its way into the presidential campaign because the burning of flags had become so widespread that public order, not to speak of air quality, was in peril. There were even fewer people involved in flag burning than there are in "partial birth" abortions, a 1996 wedge hypothetical. George Bush was merely looking for another way to call Michael Dukakis a "card-carrying member of the A.C.L.U...
...course, greatly relieved. Now gay marriage is back to being an issue I don't have to worry about any more than I worry about flag burning, at least until the next presidential election...
Instead of giving Clinton the hoped-for acquittal--which could have buried the issue and discredited Starr--the jurors handed the G.O.P. a bright flag to plant in the Whitewater muck. For one thing, they rejected a central tenet of Clinton's Whitewater theology. By basing their decision on documentary evidence and discounting the testimony of both Clinton and the defendants' chief accuser, David Hale, they undermined the White House argument that the investigation is a baseless, partisan witch hunt. Now it doesn't matter so much that no one can follow the storyline, says G.O.P. chairman Haley Barbour, because...