Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cheap shot to ask what Dan Quayle's evasion of combat service in 1969 says about the boisterous hawkish values he professes to hold today. It's not hard to imagine what Republican hatchet men like Bush Campaign Manager Lee Atwater would do with this issue if the shoe were on the other foot...
...greater familiarity with Bush may work to his disadvantage. He has been tainted by the Iran-contra affair and questions about his involvement with Panama's Manuel Noriega. "We're all waiting for the other shoe to fall," says Geri Elich, elementary-school librarian and a Republican. In fact, most people dislike Bush more than they favor Dukakis. Says Prineville Mayor Wally Boe: "People aren't enthusiastic about Bush. They haven't been exposed enough to become unenthused with Dukakis...
Whatever its shape and purpose, the festival was bound to face complaints from a cultural community that is notorious for carping more than any wicked stepmother. Before the first trumpet or toe shoe had been lifted, critics were charging that the sprawling roster of events lacked focus, and had been inflated with items that were scheduled anyway or that are customary offerings of the city's arts institutions. Some ballyhooed events, they noted, were direct transfers: O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! and Long Day's Journey into Night from the Yale Repertory Theater, Martha Clarke's Cocteau-like erotic fantasy...
...increased at an annual rate of 77% in the first quarter of 1988. Nonetheless, IP contends that its return on investment lags behind much of the paper industry's. Warns Spokesman Richard White: "If we don't get all our costs in line, we'll end up like the shoe industry, another tombstone in Maine...
...Death of a Salesman, for example, uses the prism of salesmanship to capture the petty expectations of my parents' generation. Over the years, the travelling salesman has vanished from the cultural landscape, as abruptly as a stern shut of the front door. But the image of getting by on "shoe-shine and a smile," as Miller wrote, still remains. Tom Wolfe, today's Class Day speaker, is in part responsible for updating that American classic...