Word: gorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jimmy Romano has lived at 29 Gore St. for 32 of his 65 years. Born only five houses away from that address, his wife has never moved from the street. Their only daughter, Lucille, bought a house five blocks away and lives there with her husband and sons...
...same street for most of their lives "Some people have been living here 40 or 50 years," says another Gore St resident, "and some families have been here since the parents came across [from Europe...
...overconfident Goldwater ran a lazy and lackluster campaign and finished a distant third with only 19% of the vote. Governor Jerry Brown won the Democratic Senate nomination, but it was not an impressive victory. He captured only 51% of the ballots cast, giving up 15% to Author Gore Vidal, 15% to little-known State Senator Paul Carpenter and 19% to other candidates...
Brown is what bettors would call a mortal lock to win the Democratic nomination. The latest Field poll has the Governor running about 45 points ahead of his nearest rival, Novelist Gore Vidal, 56, who refers to Brown as "Lord of the Flies"-a snide reference to last summer's Mediterranean fruit-fly crisis. At the moment, Brown trails all three top prospective G.O.P. opponents in the polls. However, the Governor has a $2 million campaign fund and is a formidable vote getter when he steers clear of moonbeam topics, a mistake he makes far less often than...
...best men, the West has tended to call war futile, the kind of thing that brown rats do to each other in a locked room. Seeing its horrors, we conceive of it as history gone mad, the reptilian brain taking over, the savage part of us wading through gore wearing ivory-handled pistols: war as a picnic of cannibals. The Icelandic author Halldor Laxness found the murderous fascination of war in the Old Norse texts of Scaldic poetry, the hymns of the "kill spree." The poets were particular about the best light and color for battle: "The hour before daybreak...