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...show more skeleton than flesh, but so ubiquitous are they at galas and cocktail parties in the U.S. that Women's Wear Daily has taken to commenting on "social knees." His influence can now be seen internationally, from a pretty young girl in Tampa wearing a copy of his puff pantaloons to the recent Seventh Avenue shows that blushed with his trademark outsize flowers and don't-bend-over lengths...
...Kennedy School's Arco Forum and broadcast on PBS, shouldn't be difficult to find in the schedule of a candidate who all but resides in neighboring New Hampshire. And Bush's television interviews to date have either preceded disclosures about the Iran-contra affair or been puff jobs during which the vice president has ducked tough questions...
PROFESSOR MOSCHITTA is best at using examples to bring theory home to students. He illustrates survival of the fittest with the evolution of tougher puff balls; he shows supply and demand with the "boom or bust beet/brussel sprout market...
...what way did Ginsburg or Gore or Claiborne Pell (a one-time, four- puff penitent) do wrong? The most obvious answer is that they willfully broke a law. True. But if what is at stake is respect for law, why the agitation about this particular law out of the thousands on the books, out of the dozens that every non-monastic citizen has broken at one time or another. If law is the issue, then the press ought to be asking public figures not "Have you ever smoked marijuana?" but "Have you ever broken the law, any law?" We could...
...THINGS during the past seven years of Reagan gave this liberal more joy than watching the president's second Supreme Court nominee--selected precisely because of his lack of a substantive past--vanish in a puff of smoke. I relished every minute as the president hoisted himself on his own anti-drug, anti-crime petard. Thanks to Reagan's demagoguery, another bitter Senate confrontation battle was avoided...