Word: tags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...matter, they still gave me credentials. When I walked out of the room with my pinkcolored "news" tag dangling from my neck, I felt smug. But my confidence was jolted when I got back in the elevator. I was surrounded by a group of newsmen with orange tags, and New York Times picture i.d.'s. A caste system was developing. It wasn't until I was standing in an endless line with the rest of the "special" press for my pass to the floor in the $6.50 bleacher section--where no self-respecting Knicks fan would tread for free--that...
...author writes almost too unerringly clever dialogue. Everything is buried under the ubiquitous wisecrack-the ironic putdowns and self-putdowns by which Americans play tag with their terror of failure. For failure is finally what Ordinary People is about. It may be Guest's ultimate irony that the older brother's drowning and Conrad's attempted suicide are only symbols for spiritual death-for a thousand subtle methods of neglect and undernourishment by means of which loved ones kill and are killed within the family circle...
...will still be a good race. There are other good 1,500 men around." Kenya's Mike Boit, Ireland's Eamonn Coghlan and the United States' Rick Wohlhuter are indeed good 1,500 men, athletes who in any other race would rarely suffer the tag of also-rans; but to have taken a significant role in a Walker-Bayi battle they would have needed to improve considerably on their previous bests...
...years in the Senate, Jackson's legislative experience surpasses the other five, and Carter's aides consider him well equipped to handle the presidency. A liberal on the economy and most social issues, a conservative on defense and foreign affairs, he is almost as hard to tag ideologically as is Carter...
...Olympic facilities originally were expected to cost Montrealers $310 million; the last anyone counted, the price tag was up to $1.5 billion. An investigation has already been threatened by Quebec's Premier Robert Bourassa to find out the causes of the bloated bill after the Games are over. Figuring out how to pay all those unexpected chits has been deferred until after the flags come down...