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...editorial the Detroit News argued that Michigan needed higher oil prices "like a hole in the head," and charged that Bush had emerged as a "traditional Republican Daddy Oilbucks." The flap made Bush look almost like a shill for oil producers (he is a former Texas oilman). Said David Keene, who helped run Bush's 1980 campaign and is now a consultant to Dole's political-action committee: "This is the most serious error he's made since becoming Vice President." At his press conference President Reagan tried to aid his Veep, insisting, "We're saying the same thing." Perhaps...
...aside flap is only one aspect of Pendleton's career in San Diego that is coming under increasing scrutiny. Pendleton left the San Diego Urban League, which he headed from 1975 to 1982, with a deficit of $179,000, and the league sued him to recover part of $9,990 that he issued to himself on his final day of work to cover unused vacation time. The matter was settled confidentially out of court...
...loudly by a two-year old in the seat behind me, who let loose a bloodcurdling screech with every undulation of the plane. Eventually, the head steward clawed his way to the intercom and coughed to get our attention. I halfway expected him to begin showing us how to flap our arms, but instead he shakily welcomed us to Newark...
...sexual subsection of Interpersonal Realization. For example, this one by Dagmar O'Connor-- How to Make Love to the Same Person for the Rest of Your Life--is not one of those grunt-and-grope books, like The Joy of Sex. As it says on the flap, it's "the book for the Age of Commitment." It's about intimacy and building a great marriage by finding lifelong sexual excitement with your mate...
...American publishers told Clowes that their negative decisions were made because of "opposition from lady members of their board of directors." When rumors that one of Britain's most prominent and popular postwar novelists was being censored Stateside by a feminist cabal hit print last January, the literary flap echoed on both sides of the Atlantic for weeks. The attendant commotion and reams of free publicity also guaranteed that someone, for reasons noble, shrewd or both, would finally issue Amis' book...