Word: dalmatian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Minks still account for more than half of all sales, but many young shoppers are looking for something different. Among the options are a yellow rabbit ski jacket with black skiers stenciled all over it, a sheared muskrat with silk-screen Dalmatian dots, and blond Tanuki raccoons with sleeves spiraled like a barber's pole...
...judgment full of right and wrong and anguished ambivalence, to make up rules-for others. There are so many of these travelers that the Middle East has become, in Saul Bellow's words, the "moral resort area" of the West: "What Switzerland is to winter holidays and the Dalmatian coast to summer tourists, Israel and the Palestinians are to the West's need for justice." The West Bank alone offers the moral tourist a sandbox full of paradoxes, ironies and ambiguities too neat, and cheap, to refuse. For the Israeli these are questions of life and death...
...sparkler up a great white staircase, and the Olympic wok ignited instantly with a roar. But the highlight for some was the final duty of Lake Placid, the hosts of 1980, represented by Mayor Robert Peacock and the Norwood, N.Y., fire-department band. Appearing incomplete without a Dalmatian trotting alongside, the firemen oom-pah-pahed along the Bosnian Main Street, performing When the Saints Go Marching In, America the Beautiful and Baby Face...
...Dalmatian scratching its back on the side of the road not far from Red's Peach Stand...
...heated talk in Los Angeles was more theological than personal. The seminaries, gibed the Rev. Paige Patterson, Dallas Bible college president and leading hardliner, offer "a Dalmatian theology"-one holding that "the Bible is inspired only in spots." Once professors accept "human embellishments" in the Bible, Patterson contended, there is no logical place to stop, and Christians find themselves "cast on a hopeless sea of subjectivism." But Houston Pastor Kenneth Chafin, a moderate, called the inerrancy crusade nothing more "than a naked, ruthless reach for personal power...