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...never knows, do one?" In this day when politicians are created like androids by consultants and pollsters, using off- the-shelf parts for everything from hairstyles to stands on particular issues to deeply held moral beliefs, it seems almost unfair that this small item from the past should gum up the works of a state-of-the-art model like the young conservative Senator from Indiana...
Cheap shot award goes to John McCain (R.-Ariz.) who said Gov. Michael S. Dukakis "seems to think that the Trident is a chewing gum, the B-1 is a vitamin pill, and the midget man is someone whose shorter than...
...eyes as she stands at the pulpit one Sunday evening offering testimony to all that God has done for her family. David sits in the pew behind Nancy, combing his sister's curly blond hair, inattentive to his mother's preaching. Nancy blows bubbles with thick pink gum. Stephen lies across a nearby pew, asleep. "Boring," Nancy says. Only David stands with his father to sing the final hymn...
...chosen the old-fashioned hard sell. For a three-day recruiting drive in Dallas, Compaq sent invitations to 3,000 engineers and blanketed the region with radio and print advertisements. To promote the company's picturesque headquarters, set in a forest in Houston, Compaq imported pine and sweet gum trees, along with park benches and lampposts. The price tag for the extravaganza...
...Guess what? I just bought a set of Topps bubble-gum World Cup cards. I finally got the entire Saudi Arabian team...