Word: dears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dear Bill...
...characteristic of the Ford years: "The paradise of the flesh was at hand. What had been unthinkable under Eisenhower and racy under ! Kennedy had become, under Ford, almost compulsory." And he remembers all this activity as being comparatively worry-free: "Bodily fluids had no deadly viral dimension in the dear old Ford days; one dabbled and frolicked in them without trying to picture the microscopic galaxies within, the squadrons of spherical space ships knobby with keys for fatally unlocking our cell walls." This stands in contrast not only to the insecure present but also to the staid 19th century morality...
...Dear Madonna...
...Dukakis for president in 1988, we talked about the issues. When we endorsed former Vice President Walter F. Mondale, we did the same. And in 1980, we refused to endorse Jimmy Carter because his positions on the issues added up to an abdication of the liberal principles we held dear...
...fine down-home hits (Stand By Your Man, We're Not the Jet Set) and a little social history, so often does Wynette sing about the soul-scarred Southern woman. Some of her best songs (I Don't Wanna Play House, D-I-V-O-R-C-E, Dear Daughters) are bedtime stories for a child from a ravaged home; they translate complex hurts into simple poetry. That could be a definition of country music, and Wynette is its most plangent hard-luck heroine since Patsy Cline...