Word: earthing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lack of "issues." There are always issues and we had them, ephemeral and inflated though they might have been. Lest we forget, we had the "Pledge issue," the "National Guard issue," a national debate over who was worse, Willie Horton or General Noriega, and other earth-shaking questions. All of them were centered around the nominees, rather than the views and policies they represented, and every one was hatched and nurtured in a TV studio...
Seeds of this disaster were sown in the frozen earth of Iowa. Just before midnight on the night of the caucuses, after he barely scraped by in third place, Dukakis sat in his hotel suite munching on cold cuts. Most staffers had repaired to the crowded bar, leaving only a small coterie with the candidate, who had discarded his ever present coat and tie. His wife Kitty, exhausted from a sleepless night, had kicked her shoes off and yearned for bed. But top aides were troubled. They blasted Dukakis for failing to define himself. "Governor, you never gave the people...
DREAMINGS: THE ART OF ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIA, Asia Society, New York City. Exponents of the oldest visual tradition on earth evoke their spirit ancestors in paintings and carvings of striking beauty. Through...
...sportsmanship, the beguiling Australian has been claimed as a hero by three continents, and though Norman may be faltering in his attempt to become the next dominant player, his popularity and income just keep growing. Today he is one of the three or four highest-paid athletes on earth with an estimated income of $8 million to $10 million a year. The key to Greg Norman is that almost no one seems to begrudge him his riches...
Ellesmere, a Canadian island just 500 miles south of the North Pole, is a beautiful but forbidding world where the summer sun is candlelight soft and few living things can survive. It is also one of the last places on earth where the wolf roams unthreatened by man. In 1986 two men, biologist L. David Mech and photographer Jim Brandenburg, set out for Ellesmere to do what no one had ever done: live with a wild-wolf pack. Achieving all they had hoped for and more, Mech and Brandenburg managed to set up camp next to a wolf...