Particularly when guerrilla-theater demonstrators capered past with large papier-mache heads of piggish plutocrats and Darth Vader caricatures of politicians.
Every untoward sexual episode of a candidate's life will be uncovered and exposed, every behavioral flaw, every teenage caper, every past speech, essay, email, conversation, promise and pronouncement with the slightest contrarian view of the candidate's present stand will be unearthed, recycled, attacked and reinterpreted to fuel media attention.
The electorate's anxiety and anger stays focused on Wall Street's past capers, stagnant real take home pay and scant opportunity for new or better employment.
My colleagues are living in the present, doing a great job, but always the painful past intrudes: Bob Ryan on the Yankees' latest midnight caper: "They play to the last out in the Bronx, you know".
Thankfully, the Jets' hierarchy looked past Jim Haslett, Mike Tice, Mike Sherman, Mike Martz, Norv Turner, Steve Mariucci, Mike Mularkey and Dom Capers.
The introduction of corn as a cheap (heavily subsidized) universal feed, for chickens, for cows, even for fish, not to mention the corn products seeping into candy, soft drinks, cheese, and everything else but (if we're lucky) capers and olives, has, in the past thirty years or so, made that particular package of starch nearly inescapable.
Its screenwriter Daniel Mainwaring also co-wrote the seminal noir film Out Of The Past (from his own novel), as well as The Big Steal, the caper that kickstarted Don Siegel's career.
As we returned from our morning excursion, climbing back up past Ibla's rough-hewn walls, Mr. Sultano pointed to wild caper bushes clinging to the stones, then yellow fennel blossoms in the fields beyond the town.
This past year I had a kale Caesar salad with deep-fried capers.
