Word: mentionings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Goodness, I hate to quibble, but your other-wise nice piece on former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis (News, "Dukakis Speaks at Institute of Politics," July 16) neglected to mention that he spends most of his time teaching college students. His Amtrak gig is part time...
...kids movie!" my teenage brother suddenly realized as we walked into a theater full of moms with their three-year-olds. Oops, I guess I forgot to mention that part, but I thought he would have figured it out from the title...
...Clinton is assured ? and despite the fact that the measure?s biggest problem right now is Republicans themselves. Speaker Denny Hastert is cracking the party whip as hard as he can ? and he?s not afraid to beg, either, telling members that the GOP?s slender majority (not to mention his own job) is riding on this vote. And he?s breaking the first rule of congressional politics: He doesn?t even know how it?s going to turn out. "This is becoming yet another opportunity for Republicans to embarrass themselves," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Tax cuts...
...rich and famous because she is a babe. (Tell me, quickly, who is Dominique Van Roost, besides being the female tennis player ranked one spot below Kournikova?) The soccer team is a group of successful (key word, that) women going an extra step and having some fun--not to mention making some profit--with America's sexual obsession. Michael Jordan did this, certainly, in most of his advertising (save the Tweetie Bird spots). In other realms, so did Madonna and Ricky Martin--on paper, singers--and even celebs like the ever shirtless Elizabeth Wurtzel and Sebastian Junger--on paper, scribes...
...look back to those days and wonder what the dads devoted to Little League and their sons' football were thinking. Didn't they feel slighted that their daughters weren't in on the fun, not to mention getting their characters built? I was a tomboy, and my father spent countless hours playing catch with me. But he never expected that there would be organized softball for girls. Of course, there was a part of him that overworried about my infrastructure. Girls have babies, after all! When my brother got a detached retina playing tackle, my parents didn't blanch...