Word: ghostly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ghost of the old Speaker of the House, Sam Rayburn, has also risen and spoken: "Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build...
With its pastel-colored stucco buildings, palm-lined harbor and sandy beaches, this city nestled in gentle foothills on the Atlantic Coast used to be known as the Rio de Janeiro of Africa. Now, in most respects, Luanda is a ghost of its former self. In the once thriving downtown, at least two-thirds of the stores have closed. Merchants, unable to purchase supplies, have boarded their doors. The few shops that remain open display almost their entire stock in the front window. Prices are inflated: in one showcase, a pair of secondhand children's trousers was marked...
...drench the eye in sea light without offering a glimpse of horizon; it is as though a part of nature had been taken down to its barest essence-discarding the thing but leaving the nuances-and then contrasted with an equally reduced emblem of culture: three lines, the platonic ghost of a building, humanizing the blue and saving the eye from getting lost...
...Oops-sorry note: The authors called it The Japs Won't Have a Chinaman's Chance. But that seemed disrespectful to the Chinese. Last week it became The Japs Won't Have a Ghost of a Chance...
...strains for comparisons to his 19th century master. The names of characters could have been culled from the pages of The Pickwick Papers: the Rev. Mootfowl, Pearly Soames, Rupert Binky, Daythril Moobcot, Hardesty Marratta, Jesse Honey. The portraits of the huddled poor, the satirically named newspapers (the Evening Ghost, the Morning Whale) all echo Dickens' works. But it is Oliver without a Twist, Chuzzle minus...