Word: floated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest of the U.S. has frequently regarded New York with a certain hostile suspicion. Barry Goldwater was probably thinking of New York some 15 years ago when he suggested that the country might be better off if the Eastern seaboard could be sawed off and allowed to float out to sea. In this opinion. New Yorkers were arrogant, crass, rude. They presumed to tell the rest of the nation-through television, magazines and books-what to think, how to dress. New York was everything that was wrong with citification: intellectual dandyism, supercilious radical chic in the penthouses, while the streets...
...bunkers to await the fallout. He won his bet. Screeched a San Francisco Chronicle headline: REAGAN WOULD SEND GI'S TO AVERT RHODESIA WAR. Hastily, the candidate began to backtrack: "I made the mistake of trying to answer hypothetical questions with hypothetical answers." When that did not float very high, Reagan began to pass off his suggestion as in keeping with current U.S. policy: "The same thing we've been doing in the Middle East." Then he became even further mired in his own rhetoric by criticizing U.S. failure to offer "our services" in Cyprus and Lebanon until...
Indeed, the toughest challenge for crews--and the highlight for spectators--seemed to be getting the rafts to float before the start. There was no dearth of contestants for the "first to sink tastefully" award...
...backwards, and Fischer steals sideways. They turn sharply and skulk towards the audience--sputtering, chortling, swallowing shrill screams -- then disappear into the wings. The three return, this time with overcoats hunched up over their heads, and pick up the stealthy tempo. As music by Paul Sparrow sounds, their overcoats float up into space, swaying as if alive: objects animated by creatures...
...month that Hemingway signed a million-dollar contract with Faberge to promote a new perfume called "Babe." In the movie, Hemingway plays herself--a rangy blonde beast with innocent eyes and a loose smile. In the "Babe" ads, she lies snuggled in a tuxedoed gentleman's arms as they float on a tire-raft on some cool body of water in the dusk. Both media peddle the same image--Babe, at once the child and the temptress, the pampered, beautiful, single woman who's rich enough to get her Halston...