Word: wanderings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unto this breach rides Dick Lamm, who admits that his is as much a crusade as a campaign. "This is almost like Cinderella," he says. "You wander into the wrong place, and you lose your shoe, and all of a sudden, you're a presidential candidate." He may not be a Powell, but Lamm does have some advantages over Perot, mainly being a fresher face with proven electability and governing experience, more campaign mileage and a subtle sense of humor. "Ross Perot, to his credit, has built a party bigger than himself," Lamm deadpans. "That's what he intended...
...novels, I started John Dos Passos' U.S.A. Trilogy and got through the first book (The 42nd Parallel) and half the second book (Nineteen Nineteen) before letting my attention wander. The books are heavily influenced by history and are not quick reads. I'll return to them later in the summer, when my mind will be better prepared to soak them...
When Art Alexakis was a kid growing up in a predominantly black and Hispanic housing project in Culver City, California, he used to wander away to play with other white kids in nearby, more affluent neighborhoods. But when the parents of his new playmates found out where he was from, they would send him home--and check their kids for lice. Alexakis, now 34 years old and the lead singer, songwriter, and guitarist for the rock band Everclear, based in Portland, Oregon, is still pained by the memory. "I've never had head lice in my life," he says, still...
...clock, anyone can wander into Cabot dining hali and find a table full of friends. There, two of the most popular and frequent dinner companions are Jurij and Emanuela Striedter, the masters. Emanuela gets a compliment on her performance in intramural tennis yesterday and Jurij talks German Philosophy with Dirk...
...were truly destiny when it comes to public speaking, clips of Dole campaign appearances would not bring to mind 1992 stump talks by George Bush of Greenwich, Connecticut, whose approach to public discourse inspired me to write, in a farewell poem to him, "Your predicates were often prone/ To wander, nounless, off alone...