Word: boom
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...famous wild rainbow trout. In the past two years, Woodbury has ranged all over the Rockies--from New Mexico to Wyoming--documenting life in what is now called the New West but which Woodbury remembers less grandly from reporting a 1980 cover story about the region's last big boom. "The difference now is that every facet of the growth explosion is much larger," he says. "The mountain states are choking on their popularity." Case in point: the parasite's spread in Colorado, a crisis brought on, in part, by the stocking of trout streams to satisfy the hordes...
...meant when I said that was I didn't want the announcers just to drop names of dead guys without putting them in context. We now have someone going over old films of baseball greats and transferring them to tape so that when an announcer mentions Lou Gehrig, boom--the viewers see Gehrig...
Three events in recent days, however, have breathed hope into a nation that has lived long under the baby boom's army of occupation. If you look, you know that the '60s had a core of nobility and tragedy. It breaks the heart still to think of Medgar Evers or Martin Luther King Jr., or the night Bobby Kennedy was shot. But so much of the time turned to meretricious junk, an idealism gone clueless and narcissistic. We saw traces of the pattern again in the case of the Unabomber, for example--Rasputin with a chemistry set. Or we felt...
...mean, why do you have to go out of your way to bash us? I honestly believe that if we had sold 100,000 records, people would have nice things to say about us. At the beginning of the record there were nice reviews ... and all of a sudden--BOOM!--we're the worst band in the world...
From where we are now, 1960 looks just as Edenic as 1952 had: a time when a candidate could have run on pure optimism. We were smack in the middle of a full-tilt boom, with steady growth, full employment, no inflation, balanced federal budgets as a matter of course, a constantly rising standard of living, low crime rates, stable families. Yet over our heads, Sputnik was circling the earth, an implacable Soviet Union seemed to be on the offensive, and the worry was powerful enough to encourage John Kennedy to run for President warning of America's shrinking prestige...