Word: stripe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, Sipple was surprised when Reed called him in last Wednesday and told him the campaign was bringing in reinforcements and Republican strategist Paul Manafort would be fully in charge. Sipple and Murphy chose to quit rather than lose a stripe. Reed has turned to a new team of admakers--Alex Castellanos, Chris Mottola and Greg Stevens--to make $45 million worth of ads between now and November. "The news this week," says Wayne Berman, Jack Kemp's campaign director, "is that Dick Morris is not replaceable but Don Sipple...
...angler John Duncan drifted a tiny brown imitation caddis fly on the filmy surface of the crystal-green water. Suddenly a form rose from below and took the hook. As Duncan played in his leaping, twisting catch, he could tell by its green back, silvery sides and blazing red stripe that he had hooked a rainbow trout. Then Duncan saw something else: a jet-black discoloration on the fish's tail and rear section. The trout was clearly diseased. "I was shocked," says the veteran sport fisherman. "You don't expect such a sight out in the remote wilds...
...them. When the highway speed limit was removed last winter (not increased, removed), I cheered. When wolf packs were reintroduced into Yellowstone, I felt a wild thrill. And though the tourist board will tell you otherwise, there are indeed a lot of weirdos here: outcasts and outsiders of every stripe, a lot of them refugees from milder climes where their eccentricities drew stares (Ted Turner and Jane Fonda have a ranch nearby, not to mention the gun freaks, vegans and channelers). Out here, though, these folks are left alone. I like that. Whatever Kaczynski's crimes, if any, the fact...
...movies, as commentators of every political stripe have noted, are a glamorous mirror of society. Growing up, we all find ourselves, in part, by finding aspects of ourselves onscreen. Gays didn't. "You feel like a ghost," essayist Susie Bright (author of Sexwise) says in The Celluloid Closet, "a ghost that nobody believes in." So gays went looking for kinship in any movie character who was artistic, flamboyant, wounded. They still do, and some of the subtextual readings in The Celluloid Closet result in eyestrain. "We know the Sal Mineo character in Rebel Without a Cause is gay," asserts British...
...that point it became apparent that Brown couldn't stop Feaster and couldn't even hope to contain her. When the Bears employed the Ivy League version of the NBA's "Hack-a-Shaq" defense, Feaster made them pay at the charity stripe...