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...something a ten-year-old would do," complained Activist Doris Anderson. Other prospective victims designed a "bum wrap," special form-fitting cardboard shield to be worn as a rear guard against the Turner touch. The glad-hander's explanation of his cheekiness: "I'm a hugger. I'm a tactile politician I'm reaching out to people...
...could reduce highway deaths by up to 40% (the 1983 U.S. toll: 43,028). Last week Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole finally came up with a resolution, of sorts. She proposed that mandatory passive restraints-air bags that inflate and then rapidly deflate upon collision or seat belts that automatically wrap around riders when they close their doors-be phased in beginning 1986. But she added a major loophole: the regulation would be rescinded should enough states enact laws requiring the use of manual seat belts...
Unlike most politicians, Reagan is able to wrap himself in the flag without seeming hokey or opportunistic...
Words are supposed to spill from writers' minds like shrimp, especially on momentous occasions like graduations, weddings, funerals; we do it all. Instead, I reach in my desk for some verbal pocket watch to wrap up for you in tissue paper, and come up blank. Too dazed or polite, you stare at my face the way Telemachus must have stared on the beach at Ithaca, searching for Ulysses among the sailors...
...hard to say whether the other students (Peggity Price, Jane Connell) are more appalled by the erotic spew of language in Bufford's work or by the way their teacher reaches across the barriers of age, sex and class to acknowledge the right of great gifts to wrap themselves in socially unappetizing forms. What one can say is that her act of commitment to another committed writer turns rich comic turmoil into touching drama...