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...question about it, less than two days after undergoing two arduous operations, Bill Schroeder, a retired Government quality-control inspector from Jasper, Ind., was as sharp as a tack and feeling frisky...
Wackerbarth and Clarke take the different tack of tacky. Since symbolic red sofas are not a literary or cinematic commonplace, they started right off with a metaphor in search of a meaning. Least Heat Moon's informative but overly journalistic commentary describes the origin of the sofa project in an unused college swimming pool, revealing in a reverent tone that the photographers initially envisioned suing the Red Couch "to disturb the commonplace into something new, and then photograph the results." The presence of the sofa in every picture imposes self-consciousness on the photos, becoming a big red photographic...
Hart's single most successful tack during the primaries was charging Mondale with lapdog allegiance to the AFL-CIO. The extreme affinity between organized labor and the Democrats has become a central political concern. Democratic leaders must convince organized labor that the shifts in the U.S. economy-away from heavy manufacturing toward high-technology and service industries-need not be antithetical to workers' long-run interests. "Labor has a massive job of self-education to do," says Iowa Party Chairman David Nagle. "Labor will have to weed its own garden...
...television's veterans, Producer Don Hewitt of CBS: "Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. Give the parties control of the two hours of prime time we allot. Let them fill it as they want. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours...
...those College officials who take the assimilationist tack present minority student recruiters and activists, with the hard choice of misleading more prospective students or seeing their group shrink and fade into the woodwork...