Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...CLOSER to home, we can do a better job of dealing with our own colonial heritage than by celebrating its inception. Despite our best efforts, Native Americans have survived. Like other minorities (including blacks, who suffered the consequences of slavery, another American "mistake"), they continue to face special problems. American Indians have a significantly lower life expectancy and a higher infant mortality rate than the U.S. population at large. They suffer the economic exploitation of the giant energy companies, who seek the vast quantities of coal and uranium buried underneath the remaining Indian land. Indian workers, for example, have been...
...even an attempted plot. In fact, there's probably even enough material for a good ten minute short. As the film opens, Pedro (Cheech) rises from his couch as his kids play on him, around him, under him. Staggering into the bathroom, he begins to urinate, and upon closer examination finds that what he thought was the toilet is the clothes hamper. Immediately the tone of the whole movie...
During the celebration, Carter remarked that the best birthday present he could receive would be passage of the energy bill, and last week he came a big step closer to getting his wish. With votes to spare, the Senate approved, 57 to 42, a compromise on the pricing of natural gas. That had become the centerpiece of what remained of Carter's energy package, and the President happily applauded its passage. It proved, he said, that the U.S. "can courageously deal with an issue that tests our national will and ability...
...packets of pulsing light, faeries were the UFOs of our ancestral imagination. On closer encounter, the world of Faerie, as the authors designate their enchanting nutshell universe, reveals a swarm of terrifying and erotic forms: gruesome spriggans who specialize in kidnaping infants and blighting crops; horse-stealing pixies; a bat-frog that preys on Welsh fishermen; amphibious hags who drown and devour careless children; a birch spirit whose touch causes madness; a practical joker known as the Fir Darrig, and assorted boggarts, bogles, goblins and fachans-all up to no good...
Social position derived from money tends to decrease as one's income approaches the higher brackets. Among Boston's Brahmins, what counts most is family history, civic activities and cultural connections. In Kansas City's gilded Mission Hills section, it is country clubs and friends: the closer one can get to "the local and regional-legend rich" - Royals Owner Ewing Kauffman, Hallmark Cards Founder Joyce Hall and the bank-owning Kempers - the higher one's esteem...