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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with the free-market principles of the Reagan Administration, the U.S. last week joined France, Japan, Switzerland and West Germany in pumping an estimated $2 billion into foreign-exchange markets in an effort to restrain the rampaging dollar. For most of the previous two years, the Administration had been content to watch as the dollar persistently climbed in value...
Joan Clark is a petite woman who has said she is content with being a 19th century wife to a workaholic husband. When they attend formal dinners, Clark looks uncomfortable in his black tie and slightly dazzled by the famous personalities eager to engage him in small talk. He speaks slowly and has a deliberate gait, and somehow seems out of place in fast-talking Washington. His features often convey puzzled concentration, and he likes to foster the idea that he yearns to return to raise Herefords and barley on his 888-acre ranch in San Luis Obispo County, Calif...
Chase plays the father, Clark W. Griswold, who is not content with merely flying to California. He plans the entire trip on his personal computer, and is determined to experience Americana by hopping into the old tank of a station wagon and riding down the highway with sentimental music on the radio...
...relaxation, involves long evenings of drinking with other men, and he is far more likely to share his conversation with bar hostesses than with his own wife. Yumiko Kitazawa, a teacher in her early 60s, is perfectly content: "I wouldn't want my husband around all the time. I wouldn't want to be beta-beta [stickily clinging all over each other]." But the younger Japanese who have had the great adventure of getting to know each other in school, want to be able to share their ideal heaven, a "sweet home." This desire partly explains the diminishing...
...Except for dinner breaks with his wife of 21 years, he shuns company. "The world of imagination is my reality," he says. "I haven't left this house in a month." He refuses to attend parties, to undertake book tours or appear on TV interview shows; he is content to let his works sell themselves. They do. His most celebrated book, Kirikirijin (People of Kirikiri), is an 834-page comic novel about an imaginary hill town in northern Japan that secedes from the rest of the nation. More than 850,000 copies have been sold in two years...