Word: mate
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Bush has been practicing a long time for such a role. In his Government posts, he loyally carried out presidential orders; asked once how much autonomy he had enjoyed as a diplomat, he candidly replied: "None." And this fall, as Reagan's running mate, he conducted a campaign that was the very model of self-effacement. He said so little of national interest that a reporter for the Los Angeles Times once phoned his editors to discuss a Bush story, was put on hold and fell asleep; when the reporter woke up six hours later, he found...
...porcupines make love?" asks the old joke. "Very, very carefully."But how do other animals do it? For those who want more serious replies, Biologist Robert Wallace provides some fascinating (and nonprurient) details. Volumes have been written about mating rituals at the top of the food chain. How They Do It demonstrates that the lower animals have rituals that are every bit as varied-or bizarre. Geese, for example, form ménages à trois; bedbugs practice homosexuality; lobsters are rapists, immobilizing mates with their powerful claws. Chimpanzees are hyperpromiscuous: an oestrous female will usually mate with every male...
...this does little more than elegantly demonstrate a truth about ourselves. By anticipating and reconstructing the action before us, we become Pinter's partners in chess. But it is the playwright's job to be more than a play-mate. He should tell us that we only live once and should therefore sleep with our best friends' wives, or let us know that it is wrong to manipulate friendships by manipulating facts. Pinter has laid the groundwork for such conclusions, but we still await them...
John Anderson's agonizing and protracted search for a vice president also testifies to the growing importance of the number-two man during a campaign. In his attempt to enlist a well-known running mate who could help revive his faltering campaign, Anderson approached Boston's Mayor White, former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, and New York Governor Carey. at the same time gaining much media coverage while political analysts speculated on his eventual choice. Anderson's failure to attract a nationally-known vice president--he finally selected Patrick Lucey, former Governer of Minnesota--lost him an opportunity to resuscitate his campaign...
...Hall, the longtime chairman of the Communist Party, and running mate Angela Davis lead a pack of other leftists in the race. They include Deirdre Gristly of the Workers World Party and Andrew Pulley of the Socialist Workers Party...