Word: stevensonism
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...BRITAIN BEEN OVERRUN BY RODENTS lately, or is it just British movies? In Truly, Madly, Deeply, Juliet Stevenson spent a lot of time in bed with large, scruffy rats. The vermin abound too in RIFF-RAFF, a rambling comedy from director Ken Loach. Stevie (Robert Carlyle), an ex-con finding construction work in London, falls in love with a pretty girleen (Emer McCourt) who wants to be a saloon singer. If this sounds like the plot of The Crying Game, don't blame scripter Bill Jesse; Riff-Raff was made a year before Neil Jordan's gender bender. Loach...
...environmentally conscious, the Body Shop offers the popular peppermint foot lotion and gift baskets, said Bill Stevenson, co-franchisee of the natural beauty care chain...
...younger Democratic challengers have a poor record against older Republican incumbents. The last three times this match-up has occurred ended in disasters for Democrats--like Mondale's loss to Reagan in 1984, McGovern's to Nixon in 1972, and Stevenson's to Eisenhower in 1956. The last Democrat to succeed in this situation was Franklin Roosevelt '04, who beat Hoover...
...Reader, a paper that circulates to about eight million students through 10th grade, has its own poll for the disenfranchised minority. Bush took a 16 point advantage over Clinton, The New York Times reported, mostly on the strength of the kindergarten through fourth grade vote. Not since the Eisenhower Stevenson race have the youngsters failed to predict the winner. Since that was the first Weekly Reader poll, their record...
...thus tends to make less news and to offer a somewhat less glittering roster of guests. But whoever his guests may be, King unashamedly plugs their books, records, movies, plays, whatever, as if they were his very own. Although he is a Democrat and self-described "Adlai Stevenson liberal," he stays reasonably apolitical on the air. "If I were to interview President Bush about his alleged affair," he says, "I wouldn't ask if he'd had one. I'd ask him, 'How does it feel to read these things about yourself...