Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Land, meanwhile, ended at 4-2. Its only other loss had come on a last-second bomb--also by Winthrop--in the season opener...
RATHER THAN just providing a pleasant hodgepodge of drawings, like most such collections, Feiffer introduces each section with a snappy summary of his motivating psychology. "During the 'Ike Age,'" he writes, "the economy prospered, the middle class grew, the attention span died." People had simple political worries--The Bomb. Accordingly, the cartoons centered on muddled fears of nuclear war and confrontation with communists. Bernard and Huey's associates are obsessed with nonconformism and the nations' apathy...
...Herbert's Dune books dealt with life, war and death on a desert planet. The White Plague (Putnam; $14.95) is set on earth in the grim present. Molecular Biologist John Roe O'Neill, an Irish American in Dublin, sees his wife and children annihilated by an I.R.A. bomb. Vengeance becomes his spur. In a home laboratory he invents a new disease and releases the plague in three nations: Ireland, because his family died there; England, because of British oppression; and Libya, because it operates training schools for terrorists. The disease spreads so quickly that life itself is threatened...
...content now than it had in the '60s. Still, it sometimes arises, like humor, from apprehension. High school students say, "That English test really nuked me." On the other hand, in black neighborhoods of Washington, D.C., if you had a good time at a party, you dropped the bomb...
...WHEN THE BOMB DROPS, a woman will watch from the banks of the Potomac, recording the colors of the clouds after the first blinding flash. She is Linda Pastan, author of five poetry collections including the new PM:AM: New and Selected Poems...