Word: pocket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...symbolism, but they also wear the signs of European expressionism, new-wave imagery, old- fashioned camp. And he recalls low- and high-culture influences in his adolescence that are shared by half the Anglo painters in Manhattan. "Daffy Duck on TV in the morning and Camus in my back pocket," as he once described it. Someone like Gronk does not cross over at all. In him, the cultures simply converge...
...delivering a short campaign speech in the central plaza of Dolores Hidalgo (pop. 85,000), Cuauthemoc Cardenas walked to the museum honoring the local priest who in 1810 issued the call to arms that sparked Mexico's wars of independence. Adjusting his glasses and removing a pen from the pocket of his tailored white shirt, the left's candidate in next week's presidential elections hovered over the visitors' book. "I pay homage to Don Miguel Hidalgo," he wrote. "His sacrifice inspires us to take up once again the struggle for our independence and freedom...
...from the Midwest fight the champ. Everyone comes out happy. Tyson, because he'll be another $20 million richer. Haupt, because he'll pocket $3.5 million, which, incidentally, will be donated to inner-city social programs. And us, because this fight will last longer than 91 seconds...
Dukakis' upbringing was not as privileged. But despite his current emphasis on being the son of immigrants, he had all the advantages an upper-middle- class life could provide. Within twelve years of arriving in America at 16 with $25 in his pocket, Panos Dukakis, the candidate's father, had learned English and graduated from high school, Bates College and Harvard Medical School, the first Greek immigrant to do so. Michael's mother Euterpe Boukis, a Phi Beta Kappa, was graduated from Bates twelve years after her arrival from Greece. Although the two had crossed paths briefly a decade earlier...
...find--wool hat, ear muffs, ski mask, long underwear, electric blanket. And, still, you are cold. You bring all the warm drinks you can pour into thermoses--hot chocolate, coffee. You tuck a pint of something your mother would be ashamed of you for drinking into your coat pocket. You remove it and take a swig. And, still, you are cold...