Word: platform
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year I ran for the Board with Kenneth Simmons '54 and Gay Seidman '78 on a platform of full divestment. After almost a year, I am still amazed by the vehemance with which the administration opposed...
...working and doing good work and loving it. I'm not going to say 'Woe is me.' I can't. I'm too happy that anybody noticed I had any talent at all. But I would make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something." Instead of Shakespeare, though, she is preparing yet another comedy, Big Business, in which she and Lily Tomlin play mismatched sets of identical twins for Ruthless People Director Jim Abrahams. And in the haze of hope, a musical biography of Ina Ray Hutton, '40s leader of her all-girl...
Dianne adjusts Bridey's costume, and then she and Bridey and Veva go under the trestle and climb a steep incline that is strewn with boulders. The footing is slippery; they go cautiously and emerge on a concrete platform that is five feet from the railroad tracks...
Vicki starts to perform a mad Apache war dance, spinning and turning in small, violent circles. Twenty feet in front of Vicki, high on the concrete platform, Bridey, Veva and Dianne are shrieking with excitement. As the train comes into view, they begin to spin and dance as if possessed. Bridey calls out to her mother as the train pulls onto the trestle, "Stop! Stop! You'll make it rain! You'll make it rain...
...MIKE DUKAKIS decides to run for president he could run on a platform promising to "make America laugh again." For starters, professional yuckmeisters of all races, creeds and colors would be able to add several minutes to their routines merely by poking fun at our dour Duke. It wouldn't be long after the good governor announced any intention to become master of ceremonies of the comedy club of life that stand-up comics would start dishing out lines like, "Hey--you hear about Dukakis' economical version of a Star Wars defense shield? Yeah, in case of nuclear attack...