Word: veep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MOST COMMON method reporters employ to investigate anything is to create a set of reference mnemonics for it. We often call this the "background," and there's a background, or subtext, for every story. Al Gore for veep? He ran before; his wife hates dirty lyrics; he's big with greens. Boris Yeltsin visits the U.S.? He was here before and got drunk; his nation desperately needs our investment; he's growing unpopular at home...
...CAMPAIGN: Veep Sweepstakes...
...Quayle its Vice President and send him forth to lecture on public morality and cultural health? Last month's sitcom episode in which the Vice President mistook Candice Bergen, a.k.a. Murphy Brown, for the Scarlet Woman of Babylon has already passed into history. A baby out of wedlock! The Veep blew his chance to link this fictional infant to the agenda of the antiabortion lobby -- MURPHY CHOOSES LIFE! -- and scolded the fictional mother for getting pregnant in the first place...
...thing DAN QUAYLE doesn't need is yet another publication poking fun at him. Nevertheless, a new comic book is about to tweak the Veep. Where's Dan Quayle? (Collier; $9.95) is a parody of the hugely successful Where's Waldo? children's book series, in which the game is to spot the title character inside an illustrated crowd scene. The Quayle send-up has the Vice President visiting the Kennedy Space Center, Red Square and Pebble Beach Golf Course...
After Bush's heart scare, a look at five leaders who could replace the shaky Veep...