Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the United States should view Cuban leader Fidel Castro with a wary eye, the government should initiate negotiations with him, a former Cuban government official who defected to this country told 60 people at the Institute of Politics Forum earlier this week...
Take a look at your fellow prisoners next time you are stranded at O'Hare International Airport, waiting in numb misery for Groundloop Airlines to postpone your red-eye to Washington National. At least half the frequent sufferers -- blue-suited business plodders of both sexes -- will carry a megatech spy paperback. Not a detective story or a gothic bodice ripper but a 500-page thunderation about missile subs, perhaps, or rocket attacks on space stations...
...rainbow coalition." That was understood. But then the sorry-I-missed-you phone call hit Jesse where he is most vulnerable: his sense of pride, his rightful insistence that he has earned respect. The missed connection permitted him to play to his greatest strength: attracting the media eye. For days after the announcement, Jackson's parade of grievances and implied reprisals shifted the soft-spoken Bentsen off the front pages...
...their respects. There's Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson. Hank Jr. sings his song, roaming all around the large house and out into the yard, which appears to be the size of one of the smaller islands in the Pacific archipelago. The visiting celebs all make eye contact with the camera. Everyone looks to be having a helluva good time...
Travis is the ideal -- indeed, the pluperfect -- symbol for this accidental movement, the soft-spoken, tall-sitting, sweet-singing eye of a most congenial storm. "People think country music is related to a bunch of rednecks drinking beer and fighting," he reflects, with the pleasing tang of a North Carolina accent. "They think it's all songs about drinking and cheating. But it covers a lot bigger area than that, you know." He pauses, as if taking a survey of the acreage he is trying to describe. Then, after a minute, there is a shrug and a simple, smiling, "Covers...