Word: riding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Todd Whitman, which he just barely won. This time he knows he must raise $25 million to compete in the primary, but he has been a vociferous critic of the campaign-finance system. He hoped the issue would launch a tide of grass-roots reform--a tide he could ride--but that didn't happen. He toyed with starting a third party but rejected the idea as costly and impractical. So if he runs, he must raise pots of cash without looking hypocritical. Asked whether he would refuse soft money and PAC donations, he changed the subject. "Too early...
This June," the promos blare, "the media's free ride comes to a screeching halt." That pitch can be seen on buses rolling down the streets of New York City, but it's not exactly a line to stop traffic. Didn't the media's free ride end years ago? Haven't we all grown used to the cycle in which every big news story, from Princess Diana to Bill and Monica, is followed by the inevitable how-the-media-screwed-up mea culpas...
...Gehrig. You can see a game in the Big Apple, at Shea Stadium, home of the Mets, who have a three-game stand against Philadelphia July 16-18. Shea is where the 1969 Miracle Mets worked their magic, and is within a few line drives--and a trolley ride--of the 1964 World's Fair grounds, with its 140-ft.-tall metallic globe, the U.S.T.A. Tennis Center and the New York Hall of Science. If you can't get enough baseball, the Yankees play Detroit on July 20. Or take in other New York City sites: the dinosaur-rich American...
Here is a suspense thriller cast as a Socratic conversation. By Hollywood's pulse, the film may amble, but this is a token of its respect for each speaker's beliefs, its refusal to sentimentalize matters of life or death. Let the rest of the movie world ride a rocket to excess; Kiarostami will find a quiet place and listen to a man's heart right until it stops beating. And then he will listen some more...
Although Dorchester and memories of playingball to the drone of the Mattapan trolley are onlya T-ride away from Harvard, according to Austinthe two locales are worlds apart. At Hahvahd, ashe properly pronounces it, people automaticallylabel him as a Boston city...