Word: atlanta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...timing certainly was not propitious: Wright will become a household presence next month when he chairs the Democratic National Convention. The work of the twelve-member bipartisan committee is unlikely to be completed by the time the Democrats meet in Atlanta, but Wright's folksy style and saccharine smile may seem just a bit more strained than usual...
...many new parents, these playgrounds provide a chance to cultivate memories, both of their childhoods and of their children. "Now I, like a lot of other boomers, have ended my prolonged adolescence," says Virginia Kempf, a housewife in Atlanta, "and am trying to re-create my childhood." Her father had a vegetable garden, and her mother grew irises. "Here I am, with a two- and a three-year-old, back at my origins." Many of her friends, she finds, are of the same mind. "They are tired of being self-absorbed. They want some roots, and they're realigning their...
...Massachusetts Governor's resounding finale last week -- victories with more than 60% of the vote in California, New Jersey, Montana and New Mexico -- gave him more than enough delegates to win the nomination in Atlanta. It also prompted three of his vanquished adversaries -- Richard Gephardt, Bruce Babbitt and Paul Simon -- to endorse him with all the rhetorical goo expected on such occasions. But Jackson refused to play along. Instead, he took the role of the iron-whimmed King of Siam...
Whatever the outcome of the California primary between Jackson and Michael Dukakis, Brown will return to the national stage for the first time since the 1972 Democratic Convention. There, during a bitter credentials fight, he won TV celebrity by demanding, "Give me back my delegation!" This year in Atlanta, Brown will bargain for Jackson, pushing the party hard to the left on rules, platform and ticket. "If Jackson's program is not made the hallmark of the Democratic platform," he warns, "the new voters that Jackson brought out in the primaries will not be motivated in November...
...first, she must face the music. "I have a tentative recording contract right now in Atlanta," Anderson says. "But I'm looking into Los Angeles now to see if I can maybe get some connections there. I might take two months and go to Atlanta and maybe see if I can get that together and then go to Los Angeles. I'm going to spread myself very thin...