Word: thumb
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Picture Boston in your mind. Maybe you've looked at a map and have a fuzzy sense of a thumb-shaped downtown, filled with whorls of streets and alleys, all surrounded by a sprawling blend of semi-cities and crawling, industrialized rivers. If there are some places on that map you've actually been to, they'll be clear--the gold dome of the State House, restaurant lights at Faneuil Hall, tile mosaics in the T, that huge cantilevered sculpture thing in front of the aquarium. Whatever. The secondhand knowledge you have about Boston, as a center for culture, weird...
...Also, a thumb injury to Schossberger and a forearm injury to junior Yvonne Karanas--combined with a four-game sickness to Forman--didn't help...
Ironically, the most conservative President since Herbert Hoover has found his veto power no more effective than a thumb in the dike in stanching a flood of progressive (the "L" word is no longer used in capital environs) legislation. By the time Congress adjourns in mid-October, it will have compiled a record in passing landmark activist legislation exceeded in recent years only by the Great Society 89th Congress of 1965 and 1966. Says House Speaker Jim Wright by way of explanation: "There were pent-up needs too long deferred." Adds Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "We were too long...
...memorable discussions generated by this year's presidential election--a theme close to his heart in recent weeks--he can point to his own record of sharp political commentary. Few other prominent critics of the campaign between Gov. Michael Dukakis and Vice President George Bush have offered a thumb-nail sketch of their own publicly held political convictions, let alone a four-panel cartoon...
...Gift of Gaffe. Nothing frightens the candidates like a debate flub comparable to Jerry Ford's claim that Eastern Europe was not under Moscow's thumb. But it is dangerous to exaggerate the significance of these small slips, especially since both Bush and Dukakis are stronger on factual knowledge than they are on vision. Ignore all the post-debate babble of commentators who like to pounce on gaffes. Turn the tables by giving 2 points to any candidate who catches his own error and offers a graceful correction...