Word: central
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...trial and error, Dukakis also helped discover the other central tenet of the emerging new ideology: the Democrats must again become the apostles of economic growth. To do this, Dukakis had to break free of liberal orthodoxy that automatically regards business as an adversary rather than an ally...
...with Star Wars technology and thus (SDI cynics might object) is precisely as silly as real life. Never mind; Clancy is back on track. The reader is shown, in quick, effective takes of a few pages each, a giant Soviet military laser weapon under construction in the mountains of central Asia, the operation of an elaborate chain of U.S. spy drops and cutouts in Moscow, an Afghan guerrilla team shooting down Soviet helicopters with Stinger missiles, tense cookie pushing at a disarmament negotiation, and two separate KGB interrogations, including one involving sensory deprivation techniques that screen out even the relentless...
Sooner or later, I realized that Atlanta, which has always been preoccupied with its image, can view almost any event as just another opportunity to shine. Even General Sherman's burning of Atlanta has been a matter of pride, central to the saga of a great city rising from the ashes, although Sherman did not exactly "burn Atlanta." He did destroy whatever was of value to the Confederate war effort, but, according to Franklin Garrett, the city's official historian, Atlanta suffered less damage during the war than Columbia, S.C., or Richmond, Va. When was the last time you heard...
...wish -- and it usually gives rise to plenty of speech and complaint -- the Venice Biennale is always fun to visit. It also has an edge on all other festivals of contemporary art, like the more didactic Documenta at Kassel, West Germany. For when you have done the central show in the Italian pavilion in the public gardens, and sampled all the national pavilions from the U.S.'s to Yugoslavia's, and sated whatever appetite you may have for the installation pieces of Aperto 88, the section for artists under 40 that stretches like a deconstructionist via crucis through the long...
...styling, of course. On the surface, everything is on the up-and-up. If it weren't, Travis would not have scored the invitation last year to become the youngest male member of the Grand Ole Opry. The first time he set foot on the stage of Country Central, he recalls, "no stage, anywhere, it don't matter the amount of people in the audience, no stage has made me feel like the Opry, has scared me as bad. By the time I finished my first two songs and came off, I was literally to the point of shaking. Done...