Word: wicker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world where she can be anything she wants to be." She might even emulate her dad Chuck Vance, 39, a former Secret Service agent who heads an executive security service. Betty has been helping Susan at the Vances' Fairfax, Va., home, where her second grandchild sleeps in a wicker heirloom. Its first occupant, Gerald R. Ford, plans to meet the young lady at her inaugural -er, christening...
Kabul does retain some scraps of its former character. Donkeys laden with wicker panniers of fruit plod along the muddy side streets. Women beggars, their faces concealed completely by hoods with mesh eye holes, wail for baksheesh outside rug stores. Turbaned tribesmen from the mountains stride along shouldering huge bundles. Boys offer sticks of lamb shashlik grilled over charcoal at street corners. Outside moviehouses there are garish posters of Afghan-made westerns in which ersatz Omar Sharifs twirl six-shooters in each hand. But the cinemas are open only in the afternoons, and ticket sales are slow because...
...Times, which--since its near-endorsement January 13--has boosted him when it can, choosing the day of the Massachusetts primary to print the text of his basic speech with a picture of him campaigning in Boston. From its feature headlined "Anderson: Bartering Ideas for Votes" to the Tom Wicker column, "Idea Man From Illinois," the theme is the same. Oddly enough, the fresh ideas writers generally cite to bear out the thesis can be counted on the thumbs of one hand: the 50-50 gas tax plan. Otherwise, Anderson's campaign is rather unimaginative. Even the slogans are remarkably...
...York Times editorial about this man appeared under the headline, "Why Not the Best?" and Times columnist Tom Wicker calls him the "Idea man from Illinois." Of late, he has not been so much covered as celebrated by the press. Phrases like "golden-tongued orator," and "impeccable liberal credentials" have been pinned to him like Olympic medals. The Massachusetts branch of Americans for Democratic Action last month welcomed him like one of their...
Franchises cost up to $35,000. The companies provide the equipment and decor, which is often early Gilligan's Island: rattan and white wicker furniture, palm trees, sometimes thatched roofs on the tanning "huts." Operators charge customers $35 and up for a series of 20 visits, and $125 or more for a year's unlimited tanning. A few offer $500 life memberships. Franchisers talk enthusiastically about the clinics' profit potential, which they say is especially good because the overhead is low and there are no product costs. Some operators have done well, but others have...