Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manuel Noriega retreats into the bunker it is time for all the third world dictators of the Earth to take time out and contemplate their relationship with God, themselves, and the United States. Really, we don't ask for very much. Like the Harvard administration, the U.S. government asks that whatever you do, please do it behind closed doors. But the one thing we ask is that you don't plagarize, and don't start squawking to the Cubans. Okay...
...true that anti-Semitism bubbles deep in America, it is also true that no place on earth is better suited to Jewish values and predispositions. Folklore has it that New England parsimony means thrift, whereas Jewish parsimony means miserliness, but the qualities are exactly the same. A dogged middle-classedness; a passion for education; a faith in individual enterprise; a near hysterical sense of family; a driving impulse toward nationalism and security; a belief in individual rights and expression, in reason, in the rule of moral law; a lust for self-celebration; a boisterous embracing of life, underlain...
...survived when the planet blew up. A lot of amazing things have happened to your old buddy Gordo since you last heard my signal, soon after I crash-landed through the Tanner family's garage roof and decided to stay here in sunny California. There are drawbacks: this place earth is so outsville you can't buy a whisker omelet or a tabby-paw pie. Here, when people stroke cats, they aren't even trying to get the meat tender for sauteing. Yet they eat armored slugs that they call escargots! And they never heard of sloppy joes with fiber...
...sending more than 3000 troops to Honduras this week, ostensibly in defense of democracy, Ronald Reagan is letting an anachronism stalk the earth. A trick-or-treater in March. The ghost of a war we thought we had buried...
David Silver, as the diarist narrator, with his sheared hair, unshaven face and ripped pajamas, appears a convincing lunatic. Moreover, he delivers his many long monologues with the curious self-absorption of a madman, drawing the audience into his twisted world where dogs write letters, the earth is crashing into the moon and a Russian bureaucrat can discover that he's actually the king of Spain. As he loses himself more and more in his delusions, the real pain behind his situation becomes clear, and the audience realizes that class boundaries separate him forever from the general's daughter with...