Word: garfield
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...Democrats for only the third time in this century. Traditionally, the ability to serve up his own state has been the minimal campaign boost expected of a running mate, and sometimes the only one: when Chester Arthur ran for Veep in 1880 on a ticket headed by James Garfield, he did not venture out of New York for the entire campaign-and carried it. In 1960, Pollster Louis Harris found that Lyndon Johnson added a crucial 4 percentage points to John Kennedy's standing in Texas, which was essential to a Democratic victory. However, not every running mate comes...
...almost spectacular nonentity who have run for the office of Vice President. William E. Miller, Barry Goldwater's 1964 partner, made a joke of it in an American Express card commercial. Chester A. Arthur had been nothing more than head of the customs house in New York when James Garfield took him onto his ticket. After Garfield's assassination, Arthur made a competent and honest President in a dishonest...
...been around, neither would Bloom County--for Bloom County is clearly a child of the Doonesbury era. Politically and sometimes sentimentally accurate. Bloom County makes the best stab around at carrying the Doonesbury torch. But Bloom County too often comes dangerously close of the zone between, say. Donesbury and Garfield, where it begins to remind one of Dennis the Menace. Because he has chosen child rather than adult heroes. Breathed sometimes indulges in "aren't they cutisms," which become a bit of a crutch...
Awake and Sing! was immeasurably aided by the personnel of the new Group Theater, and by its star, a youth named John Garfield, who ignited the stage when he stepped upon it. But even they could not disguise the strident, metallic lyricism ("Say the word-I'll tango on a dime"). Nor can the current cast hide the muddled thoughts of the author, who felt that "new artworks should shoot bullets" but who filled the theater with smoke...
...part of the next season she competed wearing a specially built high ski boot to support the bad leg. Both her father, a psychologist, and her mother teach skiing part time, and she has always skied, but at Garfield High School in Seattle she was also an M.V.P. for two years in soccer and basketball. Her bubbly nature is infectious; Cooper said later, "I was behind her in the starting area, and I heard her saying to herself, 'O.K., Deb, just have a good time, have a good time, have the run of your life.' And then...