Word: sheds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many other Democrats want in. Said Bill White, an aide to Ohio Senator John Glenn: "Half the Senate woke up this morning and saw the President in the mirror." Glenn's chances have obviously improved, though many political strategists say that the former space hero must somehow shed his bland image. Potential candidates Arizona Representative Morris Udall, Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers and New York Senator Pat Moynihan have put out feelers. Colorado Senator Gary Hart's campaign was already under way. California Senator Alan Cranston portrayed himself as the logical liberal successor to Kennedy...
...teeming up of the conscientious lawman with the charismatic outlaw to defeat some psychopath or Mexican general. Inevitably, the two heroes soon realized that under their white or black hats they were pretty much the same guy, and when the lawman finally turned in his temporary partner he always shed a poignant tear over what might have been a great friendship...
...quickly as she indecently could, Katherine Anne shook the dust of Texas from her feet and became the woman her grandmother had warned her against. She married at 16, shed her husband nine years later, then drifted into journalism, writing a chatty column for $20 a week for Denver's Rocky Mountain News. She migrated to Greenwich Village in 1919, later reviewed books for Malcolm Cowley at the New Republic...
...book meticulously follows Cowan's years of leftist activism and roving journalism, which were punctuated rather than shaped by his new insights into the past. On an impulsive trip to Israel for kibbutz work, he learned Hebrew, took the name Saul Cohen for convenience's sake, and gradually shed his Choate-instilled self-image as a wimpish Jew-boy. Researching a long Voice feature called "Jews Without Money, Revisited," he spent months in a Lower East Side housing project in New York City, satisfying a growing obsession under the guise of reporting; the same exploration brought him into contact with...
...more sinister in a large carving, Femme-Maison '81, done in black marble: a waving cluster of long tubular shapes, frondlike rather than phallic, rustling and jostling against one another with a peculiar, irresistible energy, that rear up around a plateau on which reposes a small schematically carved shed...