Word: dime
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Anything for Billy does for the gunfighter what Lonesome Dove did for the trail-driving cowboy: re-creates a brief but indelible period as horse-opera bouffe. But the Billy book does something more. Through Ben Sippy, dime novelist and later a scenarist for western movies, McMurtry confects a folklore about the making of folklore. By adding his special glow to long- forgotten pulp fiction and the advent of a machine that projects our fantasies, he answers the fundamental question, Why would a nation that strongly believed in its manifest destiny enshrine in its legends a nihilistic punk...
...they rush to adjournment, the two houses are "within a thin dime" of an agreement on controversial welfare-reform legislation, according to its chief Senate sponsor, New York Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan. An increase in the minimum wage is also likely. After last December's so-called summit with the White House on reducing the federal deficit by $76 billion, both houses have passed all 13 appropriations bills, although differences in six remain to be reconciled...
...this animus particularly clear, but it surfaces occasionally, particularly in his concluding chapter: "Historically therapists have never been in the forefront of the struggle for social change. It is not in the interest of the profession to create conditions that would lead to the dissolution of psychotherapy." This is dime-store utopianism: people would not be unhappy anymore if the world were nicer. And Masson bristles at the notion of control: "Once we give anybody the right to decide who or what is normal and abnormal we have abdicated a fundamental intellectual responsibility (to repudiate the very idea of making...
Despite the subsidies, many businessmen who bought minor-league teams back in the mid-1970s had a hard time turning profits. Recalls Stan Naccarato, president of the Tacoma Tigers: "Some of those owners couldn't sell $10 bills for a dime." They were happy just to kick the dirt in the dugout and scout the next Nolan Ryan...
...need a dime...to catch the National Folk Festival, which opens in Lowell this Friday. Hear the traditional tunes of Wayne Troups and Zydecajun and other folk groups, sponsored by the National Council for the Traditional Arts. Also at the festival--arts and crafts workshops featuring folk craftsmen. Admission is free. Telephone 508-459-1000 for information...