Word: trailed
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...offend the "Victorian sensibilities" of the "whale-saving, brie eating yuppies" who make up 80 percent of Massachusetts liberals. According to DiNatale, these folks just won't go for the constant slurs against interest groups and minorities that have made Silber famous at both B.U. and on the campaign trail...
...campaign trail, Silber has mad a name for himself as the King of Soundbites--cultivating a blunt, outspoken style that has slighted Blacks, Jews, gays, feminists, the elderly and immigrants, among others. This insensitivity to a large portion of the electorate is in itself reason to oppose Silber's candidacy...
Readers eager to forget the dispiriting 1988 Bush-Dukakis race might be put off by the dust jacket of this book. It promises that would-be First Lady Kitty Dukakis will take us "behind the scenes to show us what it was really like on the national campaign trail." But never fear. She does nothing of the kind. The closing weeks of the campaign -- the last rallies, the absence of her preferred hairdresser on election night, the finale, the concession speeches -- occupy two pages, roughly half the space devoted to a subsequent river-rafting trip during which Kitty learned that...
That discomfort is certain to deepen as more working women find their career paths leading to a relocation. Women are still the "trailing spouse" in 94% of all job transfers that involve couples. But that is changing rapidly. By the end of the decade, almost a quarter of all transferees are expected to be + women, up from 5% just 10 years ago. Feelings of resentment, helplessness and dependency that have long plagued displaced working women promise to be harsher for men. While potential employers rarely find it odd that a wife has given up a job to trail her husband...
What this film misses most is a character like Noah Cross, whom John Huston played with chilling false charm in Chinatown. The trail that led to him was as convoluted as the story line in this movie. But we knew all along the footprints had to arrive at his doorstep, and when they did, we confronted an unforgettable monster, whose political and economic immorality was of a piece with his sexual perversion. Dramatically he was an antagonist who functioned as a powerfully clarifying force, resolving, vivifying all the movie's ambiguities. There is just no one like him here, though...