Word: breedings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contributions from U2, Peter Gabriel and the BoDeans, and stylistic echoes as diverse as Tom Waits and David Byrne. But Robbie Robertson is unmistakably his work. He says it best himself on the last cut, Testimony: "Bear witness, I'm wailing like the wind/ Come bear witness, the half-breed rides again." So step right up and welcome him home...
Autoworkers cheered ten years ago, when the first Volkswagen Rabbit hopped off the assembly line in Westmoreland County, Pa. It was the start of a new breed: a foreign brand built on U.S. soil by American workers. The plant's initial success helped inspire Honda, Toyota, Nissan and Mazda to open U.S. plants of their own. But last week the pioneering VW plant came to grief, a victim of growing competition in the American market. Volkswagen, whose U.S. sales have plunged from 162,005 autos in 1981 to 73,920 last year, said it would halt production at the Westmoreland...
...thoroughly rewritten it. The crucial change was to make the leading character a Wall Street broker (pre Black Monday) instead of a writer. "Writers are not much affected by scandal," says the author, "but bond salesmen can be ruined." Moreover, the alteration meant that Wolfe had to study the breed in its habitat, to examine its plumage, to listen to the roar of "well-educated young white men baying for money." In short, New Journalism shares much with the traditional novel of manners and society. "Realism is a plateau from which literature cannot back down," says Wolfe, acknowledging his debt...
...where they serve as human scarecrows. With eyes full of parasitic worms and skin covered by itchy nodules, the adults suffer from onchocerciasis, a disease that afflicts 18 million people in the developing world and permanently blinds 500,000 each year. The worms are spread by black flies, which breed near fast-flowing tropical streams -- hence the name river blindness. Last week New Jersey-based Merck & Co. announced that it will begin distributing ivermectin, a drug that halts onchocerciasis, to affected countries...
...SHINING mahogany dining table at centerstage during A.R. Gurney's The Dining Room is not merely a piece of furniture to be admired, loathed, typed upon, repaired, eaten upon. It's an emblem of that vanishing privileged breed indigenous to the Northeast that is the focus of Gurney's work: the WASP...