Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...servants and challenged the hundred or so of Penelope's suitors to a fight to the death. All hell is about to break loose, and yet Homer pauses to follow one of the suitors' accomplices in search of weapons in Odysseus' storeroom. Melanthius emerges "one hand clutching a crested helmet, the other/ an ample old buckler blotched with mildew/ the shield Laertes bore as a young soldier once...
...fact, my thoughts had by then turned to Michael Dukakis. I imagined him watching in his den in Massachusetts, wearing that helmet he wore in the unfortunate picture of him peering out of a tank during the 1988 campaign. Presumably, he wears it on debate nights, the way some veterans get out their old Eisenhower jackets on D-day anniversaries. He's thinking, as he often does during presidential debates, what he should have said when Bernard Shaw asked him how he'd feel about punishment if someone raped his wife...
Also, be on the look-out for a sleek helmet; we're one athlete fatality away from a fashion explosion in headgear. For the ultra-cool, follow senior infielder Peter Albers' avant-garde style and skateboard to practice...
Also, be on the look-out for a sleek helmet; we're one athlete fatality away from a fashion explosion in headgear. For the ultra-cool, follow senior infielder Peter Albers' avant-garde style and skateboard to practice...
...anticipated." ABC News is continuing to cover the convention, but some irritation is beginning to show at the other networks as well. NBC anchor Tom Brokaw called the events "the network news version of a Kabuki dance," while one of the CBS lead anchors appeared at night in a helmet cam. The real action is in the conversations with delegates and politicians outside the convention hall. Those conversations are still happening, but not much is being said. "This is most closely controlled, intensely choreographed media event I have ever seen," says TIME's Janice Castro. "It's as tense...