Word: dears
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Acursory glance through the "lifebeat" sections of American newspapers reveals a surprisingly large number of advice columns. "Dear Abby." "Dear Dotti." "Ann Landers." "Miss Manners." "Ask Beth." "Ask the Countess." These columns claim they confront the major and minor issues that plague the reading public. Advice has become a staple of the modern newspaper; the Boston Herald, after all, fills a whole tabloid page each day with lurid tales of cheating spouses, rude dinner guests and meddling mothers...
Advice columns hide behind a shroud of mundanity. Both Dear Abby's small size relative to hard-news articles and its usual oscillation between the trivial and the melodramatic disguises the column's deeper philosophical significance. Every installment is more than a mere detailing of a few individuals' kvetches about an uncaring world; rather, each day's column forms a single vignette within the sweep of a surreal, Gogolesque epic about human weakness. And so the decades-long history of Dear Abby becomes a never-ending morality play...
More than two years ago, the Supreme Court ruled that burning the American flag is a constitutionally protected form of free expression. But some Southerners aren't about to make it easy for protesters to burn another flag they hold dear: the Confederate Stars and Bars...
Instead, defense lawyers are trying to show that Noriega was a loyal U.S. ally in the war on drugs by extracting testimony from a series of former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chiefs and their high-ranking aides. One by one, the flattering "Dear General Noriega" letters sent by former DEA administrators came out in embarrassing procession last week. The authors claimed on the witness stand that they were merely being "diplomatic" and didn't really mean it when they praised Noriega for his "unprecedented" help and "long-standing support." In reality, groused former DEA administrators Peter Bensinger and John Lawn...
...Somewhere along the way you should discoversomething that is so dear that you will never giveit up...something you are willing to die for ifnecessary... this is the meaning of faith,'"Lightfoot read...