Word: landmarks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...become a terrible, doting daddy," he says, the fine purr of Virginia landowner still evident in his voice. A daughter has arrived in his life since his last conversation with the passenger. "Forty days old," he says; his pride mixes with a chuckle about the obscurity of the landmark...
...political splinters. He is courting blue-collar votes, but he has not changed his mind on any of the important labor legislation pending before Congress. He is making a token attempt to win black support. In public, if someone raises the question, he will say that opposition to the landmark civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s has faded, and of course as President he will enforce those laws. But in private he will still say that the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was too selective and unfair to the Southern states. In short, Reagan is still a Reaganite, though...
...methodical tracing of specifics could be slow going. Yet it never lapses into dry exegesis. Nabokov keeps stepping back for a longer view of his subject from some surprising angle. Dickens, he insists, is anything but sentimental in his treatment of children in Bleak House. Madame Bovary, that supposed landmark of realism, he finds to be a tissue of implausibilities (although he adds that they do not matter). Above all, he continually exhorts the reader to look for his own angles, to read "not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there...
After ousting the cronies, Lummis moved to stop the excesses that were squeezing Summa dry. He has sold off Hughes' personal fleet of planes and several holdings, including the Landmark Hotel in Las Vegas, the Xanadu Beach Hotel in the Bahamas, the TV station in Las Vegas, the ranches, Football Today and 3,000 inactive mining claims. Summa has even been able to unload the Spruce Goose without having to break it in pieces, as once threatened. This week the plane will be given to the Aero Club of Southern California, which will put it on display in Long...
...mall along Route 128, designed for companies like the First National Bank of Boston. The future of downtown Boston seemed grim. Its economic base was about to sprawl into the suburbs. But after Logue completed Government Center, First National changed its plans. Its corporate headquarters now stand as a landmark on Boston's skyline, and almost all the big corporations of New England have followed suit. Their headquarters are now congested into Boston's downtown rather than fragmented around its suburbs...