Word: shake
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When he was elected mayor of San Francisco in 1987, Art Agnos described himself as an outsider who would shake up city hall. Four years later, he finds himself on the outside again. Last week the liberal Agnos was defeated in his bid for a second term by former police chief Frank Jordan, a self- described moderate with little patience for the city's high-profile populations of homeless people and panhandlers. Jordan got 52% of the vote...
...woman's offer of a ride home from Au Bar, a popular Palm Beach night spot, and then walking with her along the beach. After exchanging kisses, he testified, the couple had two sexual encounters -- though the romantic mood was broken when he mistakenly called her "Cathie." Unable to shake Smith's story, Lasch resorted to expressions of incredulity that two people who had met in a notorious pickup joint could be having sex only a few hours later. "Well, Mr. Smith, what are you? Some kind of sex machine?" she asked. Some law students are buying tapes...
Leaders from the Continent criticize Britain as being out of step with the rest of the EC. But everyone recognizes that at the end of the day Prime Minister John Major will shake his partners' hands, whereas his predecessor was far more likely to beat them about the head. The conciliatory Major will reach some agreement, and probably a fairly wide-sweeping one, with the rest of the EC at Maastricht...
...heart of the story too. A selfish prince (voiced by Robby Benson) lives under the curse of a righteous witch: that he be a beast, confined to his castle, until he can love and be loved. Pretty Belle (Paige O'Hara) will be his cure -- if she can shake off her revulsion at % being his prisoner and shiver out of the clutches of Gaston (Richard White), a way-too-handsome galoot. In effect, she is trapped between two wolf men. She can see through Gaston's looking-glass ego, but it takes time for her to find the vulnerability within...
Those actions won Wofford editorial praise, but he still trailed Thornburgh by 44 points when the campaign began in September. His anti-Establishment pledge to "shake Washington up from top to bottom" contrasted with Thornburgh's defense of the status quo, and marginally improved his standing. His call for the Democratic Party to end its preoccupation with programs targeted to the poor in favor of a renewed emphasis on middle-class relief moved the needle a bit more, but Wofford was still considered a certain loser...