Word: wolfe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mary Ellen Preusser, who lost her council seat in the 1979 election, had spent $11,000 and raised only about $6000; challenger Alice Wolf had received $7518 and spent...
...liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) slate members are traditionally the heaviest spenders in local campaigns, and this year is no exception--Wylie, Wolf, Preusser, Abt, Duehay and David Sullivan have all been endorsed...
...shrewd one." Yet, oddly, people do not seem to object to being gossiped about as much as they once did. After all, as macrogossip has instructed, any gossip is a form of attention, a sort of evanescent celebrity. Even gossip works to keep away what Saul Bellow called "the wolf of insignificance." Privacy is not the highest priority; on the contrary, a certain emotional exhibitionism has been gaining ground. Of course, it can get out of hand: a man happy enough to be gossiped about as the office philanderer might grow queasy at learning that gossip is calling...
CITY COUNCIL CANDIDATE Alice Wolf used someone's picture without authorization on one of her campaign leaflets, so her workers had to spend a few days rectifying the error with black crayon. And there was an unsigned leaflet attacking incumbent councilor David Sullivan in language safely described as strong. But not much more; considering the history of the city's political campaigns, it's been a placid fall. In fact, only one image really stands out: council candidate Wendy Abt, a stunned look on her face, fighting back tears after the Rent Control Task Force convention denied her its endorsement...
...lethal 14-year-old. His eyes are slate gray, flashing to blue when he laughs. Mischief is etched across his face as a bittersweet smile. Like his crew, he is dressed in mugger's uniform: designer jeans, T shirt and $45 Pumas, the starched laces neatly untied. A wolf in expensive sneakers, Baby Love is a school dropout, one of more than 800,000 between the ages...