Word: coal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is no reason in economic history why the American cowboy ought to be any more interesting than, say, the American steelworker or coal miner. Yet in some complex translation of reality into the collective American myth, the cowboy became a national ideal, the symbol of civilized individualism riding west. The state of the cowboy myth became a gauge of American values, of the way that the nation envisioned good guys and bad guys: the wholesomely, vapidly manly Buck Jones-Tom Mix model gave way to a post-World War II demigod. John Wayne, who had none...
...read two years ago about the earth's warming up because of the increase in carbon dioxide from oil and coal burning [Oct. 31]. Since then I often take the bus and turn off every unnecessary light in my apartment. The impending hotter climate should inspire Americans to practice conservation diligently...
...Democrats' highest elected female official. A former home-economics teacher, she soundly beat State Senator Jim Bunning, 52, a former major league pitcher. Neither candidate had much administrative experience, and neither focused very clearly on state issues such as acid rain and the decline of the coal industry. Collins only tepidly supports the Equal Rights Amendment. Bunning came off as an unimaginative conservative...
...Cruise travels from the Chicago North Shore glitz of Risky Business to the dying towns of the Appalachian Coal Belt lo play a working-class jock in All the Right Moves. Life here is picturesquely grim. Shanties that look as if they were about to implode perch uneasily on streets set at a San Francisco diagonal. The JUST MARRIED legend on the car of a young bride and groom is scrawled in Polish; Ihe not-so-happy couple plans to honeymoon in Pittsburgh. The guys al the Ampipe steel mill who have not been laid off probably wish they could...
...precisely this clear-eyed disingenuousness that may make All the Right Moves a hit on date nights this fall. Today's teen-agers may talk hip and move fast, but when it comes to movies, they still like their coal dust leavened with fairy dust. Stefan's dream comes true; the coach turns out to be a mensch; Lisa stands by her man. With Tom Cruise luring the girls into the theater, and high school machismo hooking the boys, this naive little movie hopes to prove itself the Flashdance of football...