Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elections. And, while I did find that most of them were in opposition to the PRI, they were resigned to the fact that as it had won for the past six decades, so it would win again. I was left with the impression that many Mexican people did not feel any good would come of any attempt to change...
...fried calamari tentacles in skordalia, the Greek garlic-and-walnut sauce, sold at a great rate, as did the chili-spiced Thai marinated squid. "I have lots of other things on my menu," Schultz explained, "but squid is a kind of totem food. Once people have eaten it, they feel as though they have made a breakthrough...
Despite the Baptist retreat, Howard Moody, the pace-setting prochoice pastor, does not feel hampered by the A.B.C.'s new policy: "I know the conservatives are trying to water down the abortion stance of the mainline churches, but as long as the bottom line is the protection of the conscience of the individual woman to do what she has to do, we're in our tradition." One consequence of the changing mood within the mainline groups: it will be increasingly difficult for them to continue to play an activist role in the ever more volatile abortion debate...
...everyone wants to carry a gun," says a longtime political observer. The county seat of Prineville (pop. 5,250) is a "detour down a back road," to lift a line from a country ballad popular there. Lumber trucks and pickups rumble through the town's four traffic lights, which feel the strain of traffic only during hunting season. The lone presidential candidate to visit the county was John Kennedy, in 1960. Such splendid isolation breeds self- sufficiency and a pervasive distrust of government. "We don't expect a lot," says Lewis, who has not raised the price...
Those who oppose Dukakis generally do so because they feel he is too liberal. "I like somebody with a more blood-and-guts stand against crime and drugs," says a man at the Ochoco feed store. Eating pancakes at Barr's Cafe, Bob Clevenger, 67, a retired minister, says his main problem with Dukakis is credibility. "I don't like Bush, but I won't vote for Dukakis because he's not shooting honest. He's making claims for things in Massachusetts he didn...