Word: flows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last fall to begin fourth grade, I was incredulous that I had to learn italic writing. Thanks to your article, I now know why we practice this so endlessly. I am now doing fairly well, but on the first day I couldn't even get the ink to flow from...
Maybe not. But curiously, there is a new, burgeoning demand at the source of cocaine: Colombian, Peruvian and Bolivian youths are rushing to become cokeheads. South American governments have been generally unsympathetic to U.S. jeremiads about the northward flow of South American drugs. But now they are seeing stylish cocaine abuse firsthand. And because the drug is so cheap in the Andes ($14 a street gram), it is more often smoked liberally in cigarettes than snorted...
...smoke and gets selfabsorbed. The parties are spooky: no laughing, just puffing." Alberto Laverde, 27, is a smooth, smiling Bogotá hustler who dispenses cocaine at the local Wimpy hamburger bar. "Get into it," he encourages in accented English, sniffing up a bit of his pure product. "It's the flow of the apocalypse, man. You're king for a moment or even two. And you can be that again and again." Cocaine, sent off to the States to make money, has acquired American glamour, and come back home...
...effect, Donaldson is the television equivalent of the hard-sell tabloid newspaper. He appears more interested in emotion, in the fates of careers and in the flow of power than in the substance of Government. He gives an apocalyptic tone to even humdrum stories: after two of Reagan's Cabinet aides resigned in January to take lucrative jobs in industry, Donaldson intoned that Reagan was "the only President in modern times to lose four Cabinet members in less than two years." He ended a report about a less than climactic presidential press conference with the hyperbolic warning that Reagan...
...greatest feats of artistic legerdemain was to convince the world that he really was the crabbed and crotchety misanthrope portrayed in that greatest American autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams. The extended flow of his letters-these three volumes take him from age 20 to 54-portray someone quite different. Even in middle age, he was a man of considerable enthusiasm ("Man is still going fast upward," he wrote to a friend) and considerable charm ("Gum-drops are better than chocolate in hot weather," he advised a two-year-old neighbor...