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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They are dreaming, these middle managers, about getting away from it all. And short of an actual vacation, a three-day business seminar sounds like just the ticket. It will get them out of the office, and they might even learn something...
...bumped into what might have been a fatal problem -- the public charge that he had fathered an illegitimate son by a tall, pretty widow, Maria Halpin, manager of the cloak department in a Buffalo store. To modern Americans accustomed to politics as show biz, it may be surprising to learn that Cleveland survived the scandal by acknowledging paternity and giving his organization a simple order: "Tell the truth...
...forbidding landscape. Love hurts, love haunts, love heals in these songs. The title cut suggests an amusement-park romp but ends with the kind of lyric reflection that is perfectly plainspoken and impossible to shake: "The house is haunted and the ride gets rough/ And you've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above/ If you want to ride on down in through this tunnel of love." Raymond Carver, take a turn around the floor with Chuck Berry...
This is not to say that the foreign research assistant is necessarily onto a bad thing. On the contrary, he now has ample opportunity to enter into copious correspondence with the assorted lunatics of his MP's constituency. From them he will learn such endearing and necessary information as the fact that youth unemployment in Britain could be substantially alleviated if not actually eradicated by the simple expedient of building a wall around the Isle of Wight. This, incidentally, also would have the beneficial effect of preventing the erosion by which the island apparently is much menaced...
Grim, who was encouraged to learn the sport from her childhood gymnastics coach, followed in her older sister's footsteps and decided to try out for her high school's varsity team as a freshman. Ever since earning a starting spot that year, Grim has had the drive to work hard to improve her game...