Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chase rainbows." In announcing his candidacy last week for the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination, Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas was nonetheless pursuing a decided long shot. He made the announcement first in the Senate Caucus Room in Washington, then on the same day flew down for an instant replay for the home folks at Houston's Rice Hotel. Bentsen, 54, became the fifth Democrat on a list that could contain more than ten names before the longest presidential campaign in American history ends 20 months from now.* Flanked by his parents, Wife Beryl Ann, 53, and three children-Lloyd...
...great sense of how people miss each other's intentions, of how conflicts--and even the most brutal emotional cruelty--is often no one's fault. It takes the most indefatigable kind of strength--like what grows into Alice--to do something about this. All filmed in the instant consumer glare of Tucson, Phoenix, Johnny Carson and potato chips. At the Beacon Hill, with a pretty but stony Kris Kristofferson--if he hadn't written "Me and Bobby McGee." I'd never forgive him, because he damn near ruins this movie...
...told the story, now Steve's lore, of how no one would give him credit or rent him space, how he did everything on a shoestring and by himself, and how the place had grown unexpectedly from a tiny operation into an instant success--a business with 25 workers. And how, with so much of himself invested in it, he refused huge sums of money everyday from people who wanted to buy the store or the name and start franchises of the business...
...seem really lost My friends are strangers to me now the way those strangers were my friends. On their faces is superimposed a picture of my own. Because the glass elevator I was riding has suddenly stopped. Without conclusions of the tradition. I find myself in that one gutted instant between the window and the ground...
...Instant Growth. In more advanced cases, surgery is necessary. The most common operation for scoliosis was developed about ten years ago by Houston's Dr. Paul Harrington, and is now performed on about 80% of all patients requiring surgery. Doctors implant thin steel rods next to the spine, placing them over the bone and under the back muscles. The rods, which are attached to the vertebrae with metal hooks, are then tightened-much like a set of orthodontic braces-to force the spine to straighten. At the same time, the spine is fused to give it additional strength. Patients...