Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That's not to say there isn't plenty of good old fashioned rough stuff in this movie. For a warm-up, you travel to Paris, where Lois has somehow gotten herself trapped in an elevator that not only has a nuclear bomb in it, but is also plummeting to earth from the top of the Eiffel tower. No job for a mere mortal. In the process of disposing of the explosive, Superman unwittingly allows the three chief villains of this saga to escape...
...start 200 miles away in each direction, at the Virginia and the Georgia lines. "Veeseet Pedro... South of the Border." "We started with the billboards in the 1950's" Jim Holliday, general manager, says. "Hey, Amigos--Ees Cool at Air-Condeetioned South of the Border." "The sign laws have gotten a lot more restrictive since, but we still have our leases," Holliday adds. He points to the observation sombrero, where visitors pay 50 cents to ride 165 feet to the brim and look out over the highway. "To us it's just a big billboard. We needed some southbound exposure...
...into a fairly regular routine," he writes, "rising quite early, working at the remarkable word-processing machine until daylight, running two or three miles and later during the day continuing to work on the book several hours." The down-home updater also includes domestic news. Rosalynn, 53, "has almost gotten our home liveable and will soon begin her own book." Chip, 31, "is taking care of our farms and our business affairs," and Amy, 13, "is going to a very good school about 20 minutes away." In fact, the former President seems downright hooked on Plains living. Says Jimmy...
...model for educational reform. The fact that the University of Chicago and Columbia had already been using an almost identical program for years didn't seem to bother the press and the public, who quickly saw in the "Red Book" a "breakthrough" in undergraduate teaching. "Columbia and Chicago had gotten into Gen Ed years before," Wilcox says, "but we copied it--and we got all the credit...
...notes, were very good in their own way but were sometimes educational refugees. "They were a lot of good courses which didn't fit into any particular department," Wilcox says. "They were courses without a home. They didn't have a lot in common." Shared intellectual experience had largely gotten lost in the shuffle. As Wilcox says, "Even though there were, and still are some pretty good courses in Gen Ed--they have absolutely no relation to the Red Book...