Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important ideological element in American history has been the desperate search for the Big Score, the Real Deal, the pot of gold at the end of the red, white, and blue rainbow. The quest for the material epiphany to the American dream attracts thousands to Hollywood. Las Vegas, Wall Street, and even a ramshackle Wyoming boomtown called Gillette...
...WILLARD REQUIRES is that her readers suspend all disbelief and accept the element of magic in even the most mundane things. There is really nothing else to be done with a book that begins, "In Paradise, on the banks of the River of Time, the Lord of the Universe." It seems God is quite a pitcher, plucking balls from the bed of the River of Time and hurling curves that change color as they break, determining the future. Either you believe...
...violinist who will be performing in three of next week's events explained Bach's sustained popularity. "He has an inner intensity that you can't get when you're falling away in more romantic pieces. It's purely--there's not a superfluous element in it," she said. "It's not so much that he makes the simple complex as the complex simple...
...Street. No one wants to be seen as soft on crime or on criminals. Ronald Reagan has led a conservative Administration that has championed efforts to limit the rights of criminal suspects and expand those of victims. Democrats Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro made the reduction of crime an element of their plea to return to "family values." Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, one of the most liberal members of the Senate, was a leading sponsor of the most sweeping federal anticrime measure in the past 16 years. Enacted last October, the revision of the criminal code permits pretrial detention...
...support for the contras: I think there are other formulas. I would continue a dialogue (with Nicaragua). Dialogue is the most important element...