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...Conservative Political Action Conference this month, vendors offered eleven different Oliver North buttons and two Fawn Hall pins. One T shirt depicted a soldier with an assault rifle over the slogan WASTE THE RED BASTARDS. But any conservative who might have wanted a George Bush button for his lapel was out of luck. The nation's nominal Conservative in Chief was missing both in person and in likeness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can The Right Survive Success? | 3/19/1990 | See Source »

Casino executives, for their part, resent what they describe as a city hall whose idea of governance has evolved little since the 1930s, when the city's political boss Enoch L. ("Nucky") Johnson, a carnation in his lapel, kept a paternalistic eye on the rackets, the bordellos and the firehouses from a suite at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. From the 1890s until 1972, Atlantic City was ruled by a succession of political machines, and while nothing quite as feudal remains today, political leaders still seem to exhibit the high-handed habits of that era. Only eight years ago, the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atlantic City, New Jersey Boardwalk Of Broken Dreams | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...there is only one official U.S. flag, would it be permissible to burn an unofficial one -- say, an obsolete model with 48 stars? Since a flag is, by usual definition, made of fabric, should a wooden representation of it be protected? What about little lapel pins or cuff links with flags on them? What if somebody publicly stomped a piece of such jewelry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Few Symbol-Minded Questions | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...flag even more important than Congress? Imagine that protesters burned the entire U.S. Congress in effigy. Would that be O.K.? What if each tiny effigy were wearing a teensy-weensy lapel flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A Few Symbol-Minded Questions | 8/28/1989 | See Source »

...gone. There's no justice in this world. It's the corporate big-lapel guys who run this country. Mort's just another victim...

Author: By Julio Verala, | Title: Life Without Mort Downey | 7/25/1989 | See Source »

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