Word: amide
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thompson writes with humor, and experiences a certain amount of cynical amusement himself. At first the seriousness of the book is lost amid a series of cliches about Southern life. As the corrupt mayor, the high school sweetheart and the bumbling policeman are introduced, the book begins as a condemnation of the incestousness and stifling boredom of small-town America...
...Amid the rubble of Reykjavik are the makings of a deal that might have been, and a deal that might yet be. Until now, the idea of a "grand compromise" < has always been an abstraction: the U.S. would curtail the Strategic Defense Initiative in return for significant reductions in the wretched excess of Soviet missiles that helped provoke SDI in the first place. But no one knew exactly how far the Soviets would go to achieve a bargain. There was good news out of Reykjavik: they might go further than even some proponents of the grand compromise had predicted...
Drug-testing imbroglios have also broken out in campaigns in Virgina and Arkansas, with candidates of both parties racing to get their specimens to the lab before their opponents. One of the few voices of sanity amid the madness has been that of Senator Ernest Hollings. The South Carolina Democrat refused his challenger's call to take a drug test: "I'll take a drug test as soon as my opponent takes an I.Q. test," he said. Case closed...
What was lost amid the many citations of the 1958 sermon--in which Falwell said "the true negro doesn't want integration" and that "the hand of Moscow" could be seen behind the Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision--was the disturbing fact that most of those who listen to Falwell's Old Time Gospel Hour don't see past the lavish tabernacle and the choir's shimmering white robes...
...that time, I had hardly any room for my feet, amid the bags of candy and sugar...