Word: straws
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...landslide: for Undecided. Everywhere they go, Dole's minions hear a refrain that has little to do with the spectral presence of Colin Powell. "I can get Bob Dole to call you personally," an eager Dole staffer told Richard Albertson, an undecided delegate to next week's perversely important straw poll in Florida, which Dole himself has called "the big political event of the year for us." Albertson retorted, "I don't need to talk to him personally. I don't need to have my ego stroked. I just want to know what he believes...
...peek inside the vast, well-oiled Dole operation shows signs of fear and frustration. Campaign sources say that Dole booted his top field organizer, Jill Hanson, off his campaign plane and narrowed her portfolio in the wake of the disastrous tie with Phil Gramm last August in the Iowa straw poll--a phony event that became news only when Dole didn't win. In addition, to boost his standing in Iowa and Florida, last week Dole finally deployed one of his most effective weapons, his relentless wife Liddy, sending her out on a nonstop, three-week blitz around the country...
...REMINDED OF SHAKESPEARE'S COMment on justice in King Lear: ''Through tattered clothes small vices do appear;/ Robes and furred gowns hide all./ Plate sin with gold,/ And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;/ Arm it in rags, a pygmy's straw does pierce it." JANICE JOHNSON, San Gabriel, California...
...which it isn't! The machines are clearly black, though I'm sure she would never deign to get close enough to them either to use them or to study their pigmentation. She finds newspapers near the stairmasters and stationary bikes, and as if that weren't the last straw, she finds no treadmills to set trash down next to. Although, as she says (and I believe her) health clubs across the land have come to recognize the treadmill as the preferred acrobic exercise machine she has failed to realize that Harvard not a health club. If she needs...
Sadly, one of the best winter spectator sports, kitschy-ice-skating-outfit-watching, has been in decline ever since the Soviet Union went capitalist and discovered good taste. The final straw: OKSANA BAIUL, whose feathery, tear-stained confection did Ukraine so proud in the 1994 Olympics (above), has been given a makeover in December's Seventeen (left). Well, it had to happen. In the year she has lived in the U.S., Baiul has cottoned on to a lot of what it means to be an American teenager. When not performing, she likes to shop, she says, especially for clothes...