Word: children
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...face of Eastern Europe is irreversibly altered, and damn it, I missed my chance to see the way it was. When my children are being tenured at Hungarian universities, I want to be able to say, "Well, when I was there...
Cynthia Price Ossa, wife of the flight's pilot, Jose Ossa, is from Baton Rouge, La., and lives in Bogota with the couple's four children...
...fireplace, the picture that, like thousands of others in America, was promised to a museum -- as Irises had been. "At one time," muses Varnedoe, "he might have looked at it and said, 'Well, there's the Porsche I didn't buy.' Now he says to himself, 'That's my children's education for three generations, a villa in Monte Carlo, a duplex on Fifth Avenue and a fleet of Rolls-Royces -- all sitting over my fireplace.' Then the temptation to respond to a dealer who offers $50 million for it is insurmountable. That's the real danger: the pressure...
...first she tried to dodge prickly questions about her reliance on astrology, her feuds with White House chief of staff Donald Regan and her troubled relations with her children. "When she'd say, 'Now Bill, you're not going to talk about this,' I'd use the editors: 'But the editors insist on these subjects,' " says Novak. "The fact is, if you ask readers to pay $22 for a book, you have to reveal new material. Ironically, the better known the person the more they must reveal." Recalls Reagan: "There were tough, difficult times and good times. But I wanted...
...annual day of Thanksgiving, the topic has been drowning in a syrupy sea of treacle. Almost every Thanksgiving cliche was in place by the mid-19th century: snow-thatched New England farmhouses, menus of turkey and cranberry sauce, families bowing their heads in grateful prayer, and wayward children dramatically returning home for the occasion. Even Abraham Lincoln in ushering in the modern national Thanksgiving holiday could not rise above what a latter-day President might call "the banality mode." Just weeks before he composed the soaring sentences of the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln began his 1863 Thanksgiving proclamation with this hackneyed...