Word: hailing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHEN STEVE FORBES GINGERLY STEPPED ABOARD HIS rented campaign bus in Council Bluffs, Iowa, one morning last week, a photographer yelled for him to stick his head out a side window and wave. Forbes, who wouldn't know a photo op even in a hail of popping flashbulbs, nudged his head out like a turtle afraid to emerge from its shell. He smiled bashfully, and a local reporter called out, "When was the last time you rode a bus?" Forbes grimaced, pulled his head back in and muttered, "I've ridden buses all my life...
...artists hail from a variety of countries--China, India, the Philippines and Vietnam, to name a few--yet many share similar experiences with war and poverty. Accordingly, the works, which range from large and small-scale mixed media to straight acrylic paintings, are all informed with an undercurrent of sheer nervous or stressful energy, giving many a frenzied and busy look that sometimes gives the piece an overdone, overblown appearance...
...HAIL AND FAREWELL: At a press conference to announce that he would not run for President, General Colin Powell showed why he could have been a contender. "Have I added a new dimension to the race?" he asked. "I think I have." Including nostalgia for a campaign that never was--this time...
...game warmups. Nothing significant amounted from the affair, and the officials separated the two teams peacefully.... It was only fitting that the Canadian anthem was played in addition to the "Star Spangled Banner"--besides being a heartbeat away from Canada, 18 of St. Lawrence's 20 dressed players hail from the country up north...
...hail Malcolm Forbes, Jr.! Even if the multi-millionaire has to adopt the earthy moniker "Steve" in order to emerge from his father's shadow, he's still manipulated the political arena masterfully with his fortune. Running second to Bob Dole in New Hampshire polls, Forbes has catapulted to the "top tier" of the Republican pack by advancing one simple message: a flat tax rate of 17 percent. The "movement conservatives" north of the border seem little concerned that one of the main beneficiaries of this absurdly regressive measure will be Forbes himself...