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...climbing up the ladder. And we can offer them respect." And what might they offer back? The Bronx had a cheer for it. In an age when the two- candidate presidential race is no longer something to count on, a good chunk of the Democratic core constituency would peel off for third parties...
...picture of the backlash has more to do with the messages that permeate everyday life, through television and movies, through fashions and advertising. Naomi Wolf's book The Beauty Myth got readers talking about why women starve themselves, have breast implants, apply acid to their face to peel off the wrinkles, and why fashion magazines came to favor photo spreads of women wearing dog collars and chains and penciled-on bruises. It is on issues of symbol and representation that Faludi and the newly bred backlash theorists have the most fun and start the liveliest arguments over who really represented...
...Soak a Massachusetts license in lighter fluid for 10 minutes and peel back the lamination," he says...
Sorting through the debris of terrorist bombings like that of Pan Am Flight 103, which killed 259 passengers, investigators found that while the blast blew a hole in the plane's fuselage, the breakup of the aircraft was caused by cracks that allowed the craft's skin to peel away. The theoretical answer: use materials that prevent cracks from forming, and the plane's structural , integrity will be maintained to allow for a safe landing. The B-52 bombings will help determine how much force will punch a hole in an airliner's skin...
Duke ran for President (on the Populist Party ticket) in 1988 and may well do so in 1992 (as a Republican). And although most of Bush's political advisers see little threat to the President's re-election from the ex- Klansman, some fear he could peel away Republican votes as a third-party candidate in the general election, as Wallace did to the Democrats in 1968 and 1972. If Duke runs, he will surely attack Bush for signing a civil rights bill little different from the one he vetoed as a "quota bill...