Word: gasps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sees ignorance and hypocrisy he points it out and some traditions are not all good; as James Walker, a Black in Selma, Ala., tells him. "Ain't nothing changed." Nevertheless, throughout the book, we sense that small-town America, the way it was once known, is suffering its last gasp. Beyond each tree-lined ridge, across each mountain river, it seems, a dreaded red highway--an interstate carrying carloads of sightseers from New York and Ohio --stretches out, threatening to flatten the land, fill the towns with Burger Kings, and turn us all into Dacron-clad clones...
...efforts of the B.C. skaters, trying so hard--maybe too hard--and coming up just short, were encapsuled by Billy O'Dwyer's last offensive gasp, a late breakaway attempt that had B.U.'s Clcon Daskalakis on his knees before the sophomore netminder swatted the puck away with his glove...
...Quartermaine is concerned, these are like whispers in the anteroom of his mind. The thunderclap comes when he gets the sack after two decades at the school. "O Lord," he says like a last gasp of wind escaping from a toy balloon. He cannot comprehend it, and such is Ramsay's control of the nuances of his part that the playgoer is as stricken...
...sponsoring bowling tournaments for its "Lucky Strikes Again" comeback campaign. Most bowlers, studies show, are smokers. Brown & Williamson underwrote Kool Jazz Festivals in 20 cities. R.J. Reynolds backs stock-car racing, rodeos, even country music festivals, but it enraged some Bostonians with its "Camel Concerts on the Common" series. GASP (Group Against Smokers' Pollution) protested and Reynolds withdrew its support...
...roles Pastan is not so matter-of-fact about is one we all must play at some point: the role of survivor. People are a source of life in Pastan's poetry--her children, her husband/lover, herself. When someone dies, her sense of creativity utters a gasp apart from mourning; its food has been wrenched away. But Pastan remains clam about the way life seems to decay after the death of a loved one. With the lines: The world is shedding - its thousand skins. she survives a funeral by noticing how mourners see the whole world as dry and falling...