Word: mate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is the progress of romance in the past 40 years: one starts out loving an idealized image of a mate (see Vertigo) and winds up loving oneself (see Seinfeld...
...search for the perfect mate isn't seen much these days, yet the image of the ideal wife or husband was, not that long ago, a standard and frequently resurrected cultural myth. Vertigo came out in 1956--the same time that My Fair Lady was opening on Broadway. That story too was of a man who shaped a woman to fit his notion of an ideal, or highly improved, form. But over the years the impulse to idealize lovers pretty much disappeared...
Your article about Ross Perot's choosing me as his running mate [NATION, Sept. 23] distorted the description of my prior work. You wrote that after I left my position as Tennessee's commissioner of economic and community development, a state audit found that my "office had spent extravagantly (on staff trips and entertainment) and had 'completely violated' laws regarding competitive bidding." You go on to say I was never formally charged. To clarify the record, it was I who fired two employees--one for filing a false travel-expense report and the other for a false entertainment report...
...must say that the idea of tourists cupping their hands on my windows, to see a "Harvard Student's Room," whatever that means, was quaint for the first few days. A dorm-mate from Corning, New York, birthplace of Timothy A. Plerhoples '00 and Corning-ware, said all the tourists reminded him of home. In the unsure time of move-in day, tourists, who turned out not to be "somebody's parents," walked the halls, snapping pictures and asking questions...
Republicans, on the other hand, said that Kemp proved his worth as a strong running mate for GOP nominee Robert J. Dole...