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...slick propagandizing of such ads as the famous anti-Goldwater spot from 1964 (a little girl with a daisy, interrupted by a mushroom-shaped cloud). Even the biting sarcasm that characterized the '88 campaign is largely missing: Bush's ironic use of clips showing Michael Dukakis taking a tank ride, or Dukakis' satiric depiction of Bush media advisers cynically discussing how to package their candidate ("Get out the flag, boys...
...President Boris Yeltsin. First Yeltsin's government barred Gorbachev from leaving the country and fined him because he refused to testify at a trial investigating the ostracized Communist Party. Then Yeltsin ordered the police to seize the Moscow headquarters of the Gorbachev Foundation, the former leader's political think tank. "This is all happening in a country that its leaders call democratic," Gorbachev complained as police guarded the building's entrance...
...conservative intellectual who quoted the Stoic philosopher Epictetus to the press last week ("A life not put to the test is not worth living"), Stockdale has spent most of his post-Vietnam career in a succession of academic and think-tank jobs. He has taught at the Naval War College and Stanford University, and was president at the Citadel. Since 1981 he has been a fellow of the Hoover Institution, an independent conservative research center that is located on the Stanford campus. Stockdale also served on the board of the ultra-right-wing Rockford Institute in Rockford, Illinois, from...
With this Pat, there is no question of gender as with that "Saturday Night Live" skit. This Pat is certainly a man--a large, hairy man in a tank top sitting behind a desk guarded by an equally large and hairy German shepherd. He takes your money, gives you a municipal ticket and sends you on your way. He doesn't speak. He doesn't even tell you where your car is. You just have to wander through the bowels of the garage looking...
...lack of a line poses grave problems forRestic's. Already confusing and complicatedenough, the Multiflex cannot work unless theoffensive unit is perfectly in synch. Giardi has ahost of options on each play, but he won't be ableto exercise any of them unless the proper blocksare made. Even Hirsch--tank that he is--can't runthrough the trench without some assistance...