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Hanging over all is the specter of Jimmy Carter in his sweater lowering the thermostat to 68[degrees]. There were worse fashion statements in the '70s than that Mister Rogers-inspired cardigan, but what ridicule the man took for urging citizens to layer their outerwear! While we remember the Saturday Night Live version of Carter's efforts, polls at the time showed that people responded well. Lots of other problems contributed to the Carter malaise and his subsequent re-election loss. But the image persists of that presidential appeal not being presidential. Just ask Dick Cheney next winter. Real...
...Bush and Cheney, who need to raise the long-term specter of nationwide shortages to keep the environmentalists...
...Guild members maintain that the old contract doesn?t go far enough to protect writers? income or their place in the great Hollywood hierarchy. Pair the looming writers? strike with another, even more threatening specter - a midsummer actors? strike - and you?re looking at grim times indeed in the City of Angels...
...When not killing, raping or pillaging, men have traditionally lain down with women to fertilize eggs. Today, in-vitro unions via withdrawals from well-stocked banks of iced sperm are breaking up that monopoly. The deciphering of dna and the specter of prêt-à-porter people from laboratories is also making the reproduction defense a 10-kg anchor on a supertanker...
...specter of fundamentalism