Date:    Sun, 28 Jun 1998 03:03:19 EDT
<br>From:    "Barry A. Popik" <Bapopik[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]AOL.COM>
<br>Subject: "...And the Horse You Rode In On"
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<br>     William Safire's last few columns have been extremely weak.  Today's
<br>column was inspired by Ken Starr and James Carville--Washington, D. C. AGAIN.
<br>     Safire credits Fred Shapiro's research with the earliest "high moment,"
<br>although my guess is that it dates much earlier than the Civil War.
<br>     The second part of the column is about "...and the horse you rode in on."
<br>It's The New York Times, so we don't have the full phrase:
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<br>     "F--- you!  And the horse you rode in on!"
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<br>     And if you don't have that, why run the thing?
<br>     This is probably an extension of a similar, very popular phrase from THE
<br>WIZARD OF OZ:
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<br>     "I'll get you, my pretty!  And your little dog Toto, too!"
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<br>      THE WIZARD OF OZ became _really_ popular after it was shown on
<br>television in the 1950s and 1960s.  Other popular tv shows were westerns--that
<br>had lots and lots of horses.
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<br>      Sunday's (28 June 1998) New York Post, pg. 11, "Neal Travis' New York,"
<br>states that Lauren Hutton is the woman "for whom the term 'supermodel' was
<br>invented."   As I researched in great detail last year, the first "supermodel"
<br>was Naomi Sims.
<br>      The New York Post and New York Daily News have been putting the New York
<br>Yankees on the front AND back pages of their newspapers, hyping the "Subway
<br>Series."  As I researched in great detail...
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