Word: corns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Trying to pick a national flower has been a hardy perennial in Washington politics. More than 70 different bills have been introduced over the years, promoting a veritable bouquet of blossoms, including the carnation, corn tassel, chrysanthemum and even clover. The late Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois long campaigned for the humble marigold, praising its virtues in one flowery speech after another. His son-in-law, former Republican Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee, held out for the marigold in Dirksen's honor. But Baker retired from Congress in 1984, and the rose finally won out as the House approved...
Oleinik recalled the Khrushchev years when officials made overambitious agricultural targets, especially in growing corn, a pet project of Khrushchev, and then ignored the fact that targets were...
...remark clearly was aimed at Khrushchev, who came from peasant stock and is closely identified in the Soviet Union with the 1960s and with the corn-growing program...
...refers to Physicist James Clerk Maxwell's colorful explanation of perpetual motion. In the book Maxwell's model is used by a California therapy guru, fictionalized as Dr. Klaus Woofner, to explain human behavior. Kesey the globe trotter and spiritual joker seems entranced. But Kesey the planter of corn and milker of cows presents Woofner as another psycho-alchemist trying to turn a metaphor into a 14-karat gimmick. The point is made admiringly by one skilled fancifier to another. After all, the charlatan, like the artist, exploits illusion and a sense of mystery. Behind the plow...
What's the trouble with country? Too much flag waving in the music. Too many soft hearts and not enough hard heads. Too many singers opening theme parks. Too much corn, not enough conscience. Hearts all out of the music and onto the sleeves of stage costumes heavy with fringe and rhinestones. Nashville's a suburb of Vegas, and the sweetheart of the rodeo has moved to that notorious drive in Beverly Hills...