Word: kirks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidate's campaign is another matter. I have worked on this campaign for a while now, and in this time I have heard some singularly moronic reasons why we should not support Gary Hart for president. Traditionally Democratic friends have told me that he can't win because Paul Kirk won't give him the nomination, even if he wins it. What a wonderful democracy we live in! A writer at another Harvard publication waded so shallow in his political analysis as to criticize the pitch of my colleague Noah Berger's voice when introducing the Senator at the Science...
...skinheads appear to be the spiritual heirs of old-line racist groups. Membership nationally is estimated at a thousand, and growing. While some of the youngsters are obviously disturbed, others are simply leftover punk rockers, eager to shock the adult world. Jerome Kirk, professor of sociology at the University of California at Irvine, believes that many skinheads just want to "get a rise out of straight grownups. Some of this has the same significance as the swastikas favored by bikers; it's a symbol. But what's behind it is much shallower than something like Nazism...
...days after King's assassination, students at Columbia University began occupying five buildings on the campus and held them for almost a week. Mark Rudd, a Columbia junior with a gift for confrontational theater, led an "action faction" of S.D.S. He wrote an open letter to University President Grayson Kirk, which he closed with a line from LeRoi Jones: "Up against the wall, m, this is a stickup." With some of the student movement's talent for converting disrespect to symbolic desecration, the occupation forces moved into Kirk's office, smoked his cigars (one student with his feet perched...
...bitterness of the Democratic establishment toward Hart is palpable. Party Chairman Paul Kirk publicly affirmed that Hart was acting selfishly and said, "Donna Rice is going to be relevant." Charles Whitehead, the Florida chairman, snapped, "If he is a candidate, I am going to Europe during the convention." Democratic Pollster Harrison Hickman said, "We've got a national Gong Show anyway, and here's one more guy in a funny suit coming on the stage...
...played with reptilian brio by Michael Douglas, he has some of the pile- driving charm of Michael's actor father Kirk in his early gangster roles. As it happens, the lizardly Gekko is a potential father figure for sly Fox; the other is Bud's dad, a working-class hero who is a mechanic at the small airline that Gekko may soon devour. The elder Fox is played by Charlie Sheen's own dad Martin; and to complete the motif, Stone has dedicated Wall Street (as he did Salvador) to his stockbroker father, who died two years ago. The entire...