Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rewarding pickings can be found at Paschal's, near downtown, a coffee shop and restaurant that has been a meeting place for black politicians since the early '60s, where the fried chicken is at its crackling, greaseless best. Also dependably authentic are Mary Mac's, a huge and casual midtown restaurant, and the seedily relaxed Thelma's Kitchen, which is within walking distance of the Omni Arena. Careful eaters, however, should avoid two hyped, touristic embarrassments: the schmaltzy, pricey Pittypat's Porch and the dank, depressing Aunt Fanny's Cabin...
...weather weeds have sprung up in the draws of prairie pastures, adding deceptive color. All through the Midwest are fields of wheat, corn and soybeans that took root much earlier on slight rains, then simply stopped developing. They hover now between life and death, still handsome to the casual observer. A delegation of Senators and Congressmen whirled across the area in helicopters, minced around in their city shoes looking at the drought wreckage, but sometimes were not impressed. When one of them spied a wheat field he thought looked pretty good, the farmers pulled up the plants to show...
Next month the policymaking General Convention of the Episcopal Church (2.7 million members) will consider a resolution that decries casual abortions and their high numbers, now put at 1.5 million a year, while retaining a "moral option for termination of pregnancy" in some extreme circumstances, such as rape and incest. Two weeks ago, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), with 3 million members, called for a task force to review its strong, 18-year-old prochoice position. And last May the General Conference of the 9.3 million- member United Methodist Church officially moderated the church's prochoice position. The denomination continues...
...sport to Tyson. "I don't like sports; they're social events," he says, though he holds individual athletes in casual esteem. The basketball star Michael Jordan, for one ("Anyone who can fly deserves respect"), or the baseball and football player Bo Jackson. Tyson says of Jackson, "I love that he's able to do both, but I heard him say that he doesn't like the pain of football. That makes me wonder about him. Football is a hurting business...
...will be able to accuse Baker's designated successor of a casual management style. A burly, backslapping Brooklyn native, Duberstein made a name for himself as the Administration's aggressive congressional liaison from 1981 to 1983. Before joining the White House staff last year, he worked for four years as a lobbyist at Timmons & Co., a Washington consulting firm. He usually arrives for work at 7:15 in the morning and tries to return to his suburban Maryland home by 8 in the evening to tuck in his two young children. When he isn't chain-smoking Marlboros...