Word: california
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When my parents moved us to California, the most important factor in my life--my immediate family--remained constant. But my father's move would have far greater significance. Entering such a place would signal the end of the normal, fully independent phase of life. It must be terribly hard to let that go. Yet at some point, he'll presumably have...
These factors argue for making the move now. But what looks right on paper doesn't necessarily feel right, and that's my father's dilemma. In the move to California, my brother and I had no choice in the matter--and now that the roles are reversed, we still don't. My father is the only one who can make this tough decision. We and our wives can advise, but ultimately all we can do is love him and support his choice...
Like him or not, Newman the lyricist is a refreshing irritant. And Newman the composer is a sweet seducer. His music is a lush amalgam of Americana (Stephen Foster and Scott Joplin, George Gershwin and Aaron Copland, classic blues and '70s California pop); it gives symphonic heft to his cagey misanthropy, makes the tunes endlessly listen-to-able. The jauntiest tune in the new set, a sashaying march for Great Nations of Europe, accompanies a brilliantly bleak history of New World colonization, slaughter and disease ("Columbus sailed for India/ Found Salvador instead/He shook hands with some Indians and soon they...
...vision of the Republican primary campaign appears before them: George W. Bush defects to Cuba. Elizabeth Dole, purely on a whim, drops out to run a bed-and-breakfast in Mendocino County, Calif. With the rest of the field in disarray, Gary Bauer squeaks through in California to take the nomination. Greatly relieved by that vision, the Powers of the Democratic Party get out of bed and go out to raise more money for Al Gore...
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER California has earmarked $158.5 million for library purchases and weeding out old books. Here are titles that were on shelves until...