Word: gins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contributor of two of the twelve essays in this volume, warns that a devastating energy crisis could erupt at any time. He writes: "That, in a nub, is the problem for the United States and the entire industrial world, and is why we have undertaken this study." Yer gin fears that the current small glut in perils supplies will lull industrialized countries into the type of complacency that leads U.S. auto buyers to want to rush back to big cars as soon as gas prices seem to abate...
...industrial world. The authors are hopeful that countries will continue cutting back. "This is an optimistic work,"they write, "for our conclusion is that a reasonable adjustment, while not foreordained by any means, is certainly possible." In the race between crisis and a solution to global energy problems, Yer gin and the other authors are betting on adjustment...
...died, after a long bout with cancer, just three days before the summer solstice and the principal season of his imagination. Author John Cheever, 70, was a celebrant of sunlight, of manicured suburban lawns and shaved ice swimming in gin. Not all of his fiction (five novels and more than 100 short stories) was set in the heat of the year, but his dominant landscape radiated warmth and possibilities. It was filled with earnest people blinking in the glare of sudden and temporary freedom, with winter a chilly reflex of conscience. Seaside houses stimulated the senses: "Lying...
...trouble started back in Prohibition. Two bootleggers were stopped in their car by federal agents, who ripped out the rumble-seat upholstery and found 68 bottles of gin and whisky. The officers had obtained no warrant allowing the search, but in a 1925 decision, the Supreme Court declared that because cars were mobile, warrantless searches were legal if police had probable cause to believe that contraband was in the vehicle. Ever since, court majorities have been swerving from side to side, trying to define the extent of that exception to the Fourth Amendment's search and seizure rules...
Louisville may have been slightly victimized by past successes. The Pulitzer-prizewinning Crimes of the Heart (currently on Broadway) originated at the festival, as did Getting Out, My Sister in This House, Agnes of God, and The Gin Game, all of which went on to New York and to other regional theaters...