Word: riders
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...script for 1964's Dr. Strangelove, co-written with director Stanley Kubrick, showed an unerring ear for atomic-age Orwellianisms ("You can't fight here," cries President Muffley. "This is the War Room!"). The script won Southern an Oscar nomination, as did his work on another definitive film, Easy Rider...
...western-led attack on environmental law proceeded quietly for much of this year, in part because, in a tactic that Democrats long ago raised to an art form, many of the changes were attached as riders to appropriations bills that fund federal activities, rather than stand-alone bills debated openly on the floor of Congress. And many more are tucked away in budget reconciliation bills that will whiz through Congress in the next several weeks. The riders include directives to the Environmental Protection Agency forbidding it to issue standards for measuring arsenic in tap water or to list new hazardous...
Ispent nearly all of my first semester as a first-year crutching around campus. I definitely benefited in many ways from the renovations which the college has undergone with such attention to disability. I was by far the most frequent rider on the Greenough elevator, as well as the one at the side entrance of the Union. I came to love the Science Center for the lobby door that would open at the press of a button, and the elevator down to the mailboxes...
Consider, for instance, his portrait of a friend, the English writer Michael Podro. Its title is The Jewish Rider. The man sits in the compartment of a railway carriage. Its upholstery, its projecting headrests and Podro's clothes are rendered in broad swipes of the brush and suggest an unease that is close to violence. The man is on the very edge of his seat, his arm cocked at a peculiar rhetorical angle, his hand on his thigh. We have seen this pose before. It is that of Rembrandt's Polish Rider: the mysterious young man setting out through...
What inspired him to build his low-rider bicycle: I had bought a shirt when I was here for pre-frosh weekend, and it had a guy, a cartoon character, on a low-rider bicycle. He looked so fresh, all swanked out, and it had a really old school flavor...