Word: helling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that has survived three Republican Administrations. In a 1977 poll of 1,000 leading Capitol Hill figures, he was named the top Senator of the past 75 years. (Humphrey, then fatally ill with cancer, responded to the news: "Jesus Christ, Lyndon Johnson's going to be sore as hell about this.") Solberg, whose biography is the first to benefit from Humphrey's papers at the Minnesota Historical Society, recounts his subject's career in impressive detail, but stumbles when he tries to explain Humphrey's self-defeating diffidence. The answer may lie in the other legacy...
...logistics of getting her to Minnesota for the formal announcement. Reilly apologized for putting pressure on her just as she was about to deliver a foreign policy speech to the World Affairs Council in San Francisco. Unruffled, the Congresswoman replied, "I think I'll go out and give Reagan hell." (She did.) Reilly told her, "You'll be hearing from Peter Kyros," who was dispatched to bring her to Minnesota, and hung...
...trade away fading but still useful players on the hopes that the young kid from the plains is the next incarnation of Hank Aaron. Protesting the dumping of friends like Bernie Carbo, Tim McCarver and Rodney Scott eventually got Lee kicked out of baseball but it still bugs the hell out of him. The worst was Carbo. Baseball fans the world over remember Carleton Fisk's body-English home run off the foul pole that won the sixth game of the '75 World Series, but Bostonians remember Carbo's ninth inning pinch hit homer to tie the game as much...
...nothing less: seen well, the currents and eddies that quicken, disappear and roil to the surface again during two generations of an ordinary family's journey are astonishing and mysterious. Fat-legged baby becomes child, becomes maiden, becomes mother, becomes crone. Which is real? Blink twice; the young hell raiser reappears as the sour pensioner. Which is illusion, hot sexuality or bitter recollection...
...kept trying: "I am a guinea pig with a hell of a palate." He was finally satisfied in 1980. Mintz keeps his formula a secret but admits to contemplating odd flavors like mango and even pineapple-yam. Says he: "My wife Rachel and I live and breathe Tofutti...