Word: matings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Muskie remembers the day in Los Angeles, more than a year before, when he candidly told a group of black leaders that he would not choose a Negro as his running mate because, "in view of the climate in the country today, if a black man were on the ticket, we would both lose...
...ultimate prop, however, is Linus's blanket. Under Doug Eichman's affectionate fondling, the woolly soul-mate changes from a cavalier's cape, to a savage's spear, to a dance partner for the number "My Blanket and Me". Despite whatever Lucy might say, he's no "baby brother with a baby blanket," and preposterously picks apart his own psyche and that of others in Papa Bettelheim's best manner...
altitude, the Maximum Leader signaled a time-out - but not a long one. Mo ments later, he was back on the court, this time gaily leading a startled team mate around in an impromptu waltz...
...Arctic Circle. Unlike, say, Ian Fleming, who was content with swift caricatures or comic-book effects, MacLean casts a few interesting human characters. There is old Captain Imrie, for example, who drinks like John Barrymore and thinks like Samuel Eliot Morison; and there is a rummy but Jesuitical mate named Stokes, who can remember the specific weather on an afternoon a generation...
While talking to black Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm about her candidacy for the White House, New York Representative Edward I. Koch put his tongue firmly in his cheek and asked her if she would consider him as a running mate. "No, Ed," muskied Mrs. Chisholm. "I don't think the country is ready for a Jewish Vice President...