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During his campaign stops, Bush always sits on a wooden stool in the middle of the room. During the course of the speech, the president spins around, addressing different parts of the room...

Author: By Alessandra M. Galloni, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Presidential Hopefuls Stick to Stump Speeches | 2/21/1992 | See Source »

MANCHESTER, N.H.--Town locals, campaign volunteers and undecided voters discussed, bashed and praised the debate performances of the five democratic presidential candidates, as they engaged in good old-fashioned porch swing politics and bar-stool commentary at restaurants and support rallies across the Granite State...

Author: By Melissa Lee, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Locals Bash, Praise Candidate Debate | 2/18/1992 | See Source »

...hands tremble as we pass a display of belt sanders in a hardware store. If this sounds exaggerated, consider Owen's passionate discussion of "The Joy of Joint Compound." He writes that "once, when I was resurfacing the ceiling of my daughter's bedroom, I stepped down from the stool on which I had been standing and into an open bucket of joint compound. The smooth white material felt cool and luxurious against my foot, which, as luck would have it, was bare." Mental-health professionals and spouses of Skilsaw fondlers will recognize that luck had nothing to do with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: If You Had A Hammer | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

...hectic Saturday at Saks Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, a harried shoe clerk hardly noticed his latest customer as he cleared a space in a mountain of shoe boxes and settled onto his stool -- but then he could hardly believe his eyes. Presenting her dainty soles to the happy salesman was IMELDA MARCOS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Have I Gone to Heaven? | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...facing investigators who are still trying to unravel the Iran- contra scandal and other baroque plots that American officials may have hatched in the Middle East over the past decade. Last week, as yet more charges came to light, there was no shortage of fingerprints, plot twists or stool pigeons. But there was a desperate shortage of certainty, perhaps because when truth is stranger than fiction, the two are harder to separate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Espionage: Con Man or Key to a Mystery? | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

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