Word: rides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slick propagandizing of such ads as the famous anti-Goldwater spot from 1964 (a little girl with a daisy, interrupted by a mushroom-shaped cloud). Even the biting sarcasm that characterized the '88 campaign is largely missing: Bush's ironic use of clips showing Michael Dukakis taking a tank ride, or Dukakis' satiric depiction of Bush media advisers cynically discussing how to package their candidate ("Get out the flag, boys...
...charges of favoritism, Clinton has hardly enjoyed a free ride. The media -- a term carelessly used to embrace everything from supermarket tabloids to the respectable press to prime-time sitcoms -- gave Republicans much of their ammunition: the purported romance with Gennifer Flowers, controversies over his draft record and personal investments, allegations of favors to his mother and other allies. Indeed, there was something downright unseemly about the armies of reporters tripping over one another in Arkansas last spring, scrambling to dig up dirt on Clinton. But that was when polls had the Democrat third in a three-way race...
...feel to it. With bright horns in the background and a fast beat, Merchant entreats the listener to move beyond life's troubles and enjoy its fruits. "Till you drop that heavy baggage you're dragging behind/ There won't be room for us to both go on this ride...
...proposal, a program offering students achance to ride along with police in their patrolcars, drew the most excited response...
...collection, contains only "Under the Bridge," the Chili's smash hit of the summer, from the last album. Where's "If You Have to Ask," "Funky Monks," or "Mellowship Slinky in B major," to name just a few? Or, as the Chili Peppers are trying to ride off the success of "Under the Bridge," why did they not include the other slow balladesque song from Blood, "I Could Have Lied...