Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spirit. Look around. You can see the special lightning, the distinctive gravity, the portable wit, the personal spin. The new marquee names have a Spanish ring: Edward James Olmos, Andy Garcia, Maria Conchita Alonso. At the movies, the summer of La Bamba gave way last year to the autumn of Born in East L. A.; now the springtime of Stand and Deliver blends into the summer of Salsa. On the record charts the story is the same: Miami Sound Machine, Los Lobos, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam. The rhythm is gonna...
...autumn morning Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence told a group of alumni and one student that the College wanted to build another undergraduate house, that the proportion of the endowment spent on students at Harvard is smaller than at Princeton and that Harvard wants to increase the size of its faculty...
Despite the fairy-tale ending of Marquez' novel, the magical realism which dominated the prose of his previous works such as One Hundred Years of Solitude and The Autumn of the Patriarch is surprisingly subtle in this latest work. No sleeping women spout anger and green blood, no plagues of forgetfulness rain down upon forgotten towns. Furthermore, conversation with spirits is relatively nonexistent in Love in the Time of Cholera and babies with corkscrew tails are not to be found...
Noonan once wrote for Dan Rather ("Autumn has dropped like a fruit") and then became Ronald Reagan's best lyricist ("The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them"). "When she left, the | Great Communicator sang no more," said Michael Horowitz, former counsel of OMB. George Bush tapped Noonan's talents, and she came up with his best line yet: "We have earned our optimism, we have a right to our confidence, and we have much...
...makes good on his promise to tell his story as he remembers it and "not to impose upon it the revisionary wisdom of age." But his prose betrays a mature intelligence. It is deceptively simple and consistently enchanting. Here is a pilot's view of Santa Barbara: "In the autumn the fogs were frequent, and moved in very quickly, as though the earth were pulling a blanket up to its chin in preparation for a cold night." Thanks to many such moments, Flights of Passage reaches well beyond those who "had been happy in that timeless world of young...