Word: companionably
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prospects are not entirely dim. Japan, for instance, has warned North Korea that it will not get any of the Japanese trade and investment its nose-diving economy desperately needs until it drops its nuclear-weapons program. North Korea has promised to open up to IAEA inspection if a companion inspection proves there are no American nuclear weapons in South Korea. If North Korea does allow inspections, U.S. officials have evidence that they believe will force the IAEA to demand to see all of Pyongyang's major nuclear facilities -- but that still would not guarantee that bomb building would...
...RADIO ROMANCE by Garrison Keillor (Viking; $21.95). The inventor and host of public radio's A Prairie Home Companion turns in a loopy, endearing novel about the golden days of the talking box and some of those folks behind the microphones. It is the 1930s, and the staff at Minneapolis' fictional WLT can't believe that what they are doing is work and that such good times will last. They...
Garrison Keillor's first novel, WLT: A Radio Romance, trips off his tongue as smoothly as an old-time Lutheran gospel, and it flows as easily as sketches on his old radio show, A Prairie Home Companion. WLT is the latest of several published works, but anyone who has heard Keillor spin tales about Lake Wobegon-told between wheezes and long pauses-or any of his favorite topics cannot separate the literary voice from the oral tradition, the printed text from the waves of sound...
...broadest attempt to improve access and contain costs is taking place in Oregon. The state is asking the U.S. government to approve changes in Medicaid rules to provide a limited list of medical services to all people below the poverty level, regardless of their current Medicaid status. A companion law in Oregon's comprehensive health plan requires all employers to provide health insurance for full-time employees and obliges insurance companies to renew those policies without excluding individuals considered too risky. The state also guarantees that doctors and hospitals are reimbursed for their services but makes them justify their purchases...
When Garrison Keillor reinvented the radio variety show some years ago with his Prairie Home Companion program Saturday evenings on public radio, the driving emotional force was a shameless, moony nostalgia for the never-was. But misty reminiscence taken straight out of the bottle is saccharine. What gives Keillor's wamblings about Midwestern small-timers their cutting edge (they continue on his new American Radio Company show) is a rare mix of exile's longing and eye-rolling exasperation. Were we really that awful, and was it really that grand...