Word: zanier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Campaigning techniques at Boston area schools range from traditional postering and speechmaking tactics to zanier projects like the cannon-painting war that takes place at Tufts...
Even fringe politics seems zanier than elsewhere. At this year's May Day demonstration in MacArthur Park, 200 members of the Revolutionary Communist Party were like heavyhanded caricatures of Commies, shouting, "We spit on the red, white and blue...
...fast becoming fashionable. Recession Ware bracelets, offered in novelty shops for $2.50 each, are the latest gimmick from master Marketer Stephen Askin, 43, of Los Angeles. During the Iranian hostage crisis, Askin sold Ayatullah Dartboards. More recently he has developed aerosol cans of water labeled Nuclear Fallout Repellant. Even zanier is his Deeley Bobber, a glitter-coated headset that looks like insect antennae. In the past ten weeks an estimated 2 million bobbers have been sold at $2.99 each...
Correspondent Eileen Shields has found that a lively sense of humor is essential to survive a presidential campaign. Shields, who has traveled 30,000 miles with Independent Candidate John Anderson since mid-August, describes the atmosphere on Anderson's press plane as "zanier all the time." She reports that her colleagues have taken to hanging a rubber chicken from the ceiling and blowing whistles during take-offs and landings. Still, admits Shields, "the only thing worse than covering a presidential campaign is not covering...