Word: greates
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unmissed past. And the results of changes in educational direction are glaringly obvious from the poll's findings: American adults may have scored poorly on the survey, but Americans in the 18 to 24-year-old category did even worse, placing last out of nine countries, including Mexico, Canada, Great Britain and Japan...
...took great satisfaction in that victory, but it did not look like smugness this time. He had found a political operative, John Sasso, for whom, as in Kitty's case, he cleared a certain area of relaxation within his more rigid general framework. He pursued the same goals in his second term as in his first, but with more accommodating methods. A few deals and favors could be done, if he was not directly involved. There are some things about Kitty that her husband does not want to measure with a calibrated knowledge -- how much she smokes, what pills...
...image can swell up into a ravishing pictorial event. Sometimes one is excluded; it is like eavesdropping on a man who, half asleep at 4 in the morning, combines and recombines the obsessive contents of his semiconscious mind, muttering and sometimes cursing. But this is the play of a great artist...
Travis took up the guitar in a serious way instead ("I'm still not a great player, though. I just mainly play rhythm"). Hatcher remembers that he was "very, very shy. He would hardly talk to me, even after I hired him." He didn't have much to talk about, between guitar and all the handymanning and mechanical-bull handling she had him doing around the club, never mind the singing. He had won a Country City amateur contest, and settled in at the club for what was to be a five-year stay. "One day," says Hatcher, "Randy...
...Randy shared a few things in common, including, it is often suggested, a strong romantic entanglement. "It is a great partnership" is as far as Randy will go to characterize the relationship. But Hatcher, fortyish, is as close to her boy now as she was way back in 1978, when she put up $10,000 for his first two singles, released by a local label out of Shreveport, La. They also shared a strong sense of Randy's destiny and in 1981 were already making the rounds and plugging songs in Nashville. Finally, in 1985, a Warner Bros. Records exec...