Word: vanguard
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...Cornelia's boyfriend of a year. Riva, 42, is a dapper real estate speculator whose Italian parents raised him in Peru. I think she is great, fantastic," Riva says, snapping photo after photo of Cornelia in her silver jacket and leather pants. 'Very fantastic. We have a vanguard, you enow...
Salesmen and seers, they are in the vanguard of the revolution
...York, Enid Nemy stands in the vanguard of these mindless extollers of income. Nemy fills about 25 column inches weekly in the Living Section of The New York Times with a column that has very little to do with the "living" of most New Yorkers. As cheerful treatment of the trivialities of life. Nemy's column evinces a blithe ignorance and unconcern for the world's misfortunes. Elderly New Yorkers may he eating per food and locking themselves in unsafe apartments, but Nemy chatters on with the cheerful opinion that the hardest thing about growing old in America these days...
...first time King has ever directly written a screenplay; up to now, his books have always been adapted by others, sometimes quite successfully, as in the case of Carrie. Perhaps if both men each return to their previous status they will once again be at the vanguard of horror entertainment, but here they have failed. Creepshow is not--as Clockwork Orange's Alex might have put it-horror show...
Cuomo, 50, was smoother and less controversial, a philosophical and soft-spoken campaigner who put together a coalition of labor unions, minorities, liberals and upstaters. At a time when Koch and other fiscally conservative Democrats are thought to be the vanguard of a new wave of neoliberalism, Cuomo spoke of restoring the "soul of the Democratic Party" with values "that have been shared by a generation." Among them: "Government has an aggressive role to play that's deeper than preparing us for war or simply taking care of the rich...