Word: bantam
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many members of the Republican Party seem to believe, that there are few disadvantages attached to being American. But there is at least one: What other democratic nation would make a bantam like J. Danforth Quayle its Vice President and send him forth to lecture on public morality and cultural health? Last month's sitcom episode in which the Vice President mistook Candice Bergen, a.k.a. Murphy Brown, for the Scarlet Woman of Babylon has already passed into history. A baby out of wedlock! The Veep blew his chance to link this fictional infant to the agenda of the antiabortion lobby...
...Kennedy assassination and the conspiracy theories challenging the official findings of the Warren Commission Report. Hundreds of Americans have called federal offices asking where they can get the book. So where is it? Produced in 1964 by the Government Printing Office, the Warren Report was also published by Bantam, Doubleday, McGraw-Hill and Popular Library (which collectively sold more than 1 million copies). But even though a snazzy edition might move smartly up the charts about now, none of the publishers are printing a fresh batch. Check your local library...
BEDS by Diane Von Furstenberg and Stewart O'Shields (Bantam...
...local mine at 27. Pete was taken in by his grandfather, whose skull was crushed in a cave-in when Pete was 13. Now, at 44, Spradlin works the same rolling seam of coal -- Chilton, it is called -- that his father and grandfather did. Each morning Spradlin enters the Bantam Mine, crouching to clear the sign that reads WORK SAFE AND ENJOY LIFE. But Spradlin has had his own close calls -- a gashed lip that took 16 stitches, a couple of cracked ribs, a broken finger, two teeth knocked...
LILA by Robert M. Pirsig; Bantam; 409 pages...