Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unfortunately, this tourist-brochure fantasy is only the beginning of Patriot Games, a novel that performs the odd trick of growing exponentially less interesting with the turning of each page. Ryan returns to the U.S. and resumes his old humdrum life, teaching history at the Naval Academy, with the added burden of playing a sitting duck. For it is only a matter of time -- oodles of time -- until the U.L.A. "bad guys" attempt to punish Ryan for thwarting their plans in London...
...testimony, committed political satire is rare. So is X-rated material, with a few notable exceptions like screaming Sam Kinnison's. "The networks want comedians to work clean," says Richard Fields, owner of Catch a Rising Star, a Manhattan comedy club. Indeed, many young comics regard stand-up comedy less as a goal than as a stepping stone. "People today are not just shooting to be * headliners," says Dennis Perrin, a New York-based comic and writer. "They want the big payoff -- a movie or TV series...
...South. Jobs -- dirty, low-paying, but regular -- were available in thriving urban industries to anyone with a mind to work and a back strong enough for heavy lifting. Although pernicious, segregation at least compelled a sense of community, with black professionals and businessmen living among those who were far less successful. "These figures served the black community well as visible, concrete symbols of success and moral value, as living examples of the result of hard work, perseverance, decency and propriety," writes Elijah Anderson, a black professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania...
...offered middle-class blacks the opportunity to move beyond the ghetto walls. "The most upwardly mobile are the first to leave," explains Walter Williams, professor of economics at George Mason University. "Then the next best, the church members and civic leaders, leave. They are replaced by those who care less. There is cumulative decay...
...hazardous race being run by U.S. convoys through the Persian Gulf coincides with a less publicized development in the Middle East: a rush to expand pipelines as an alternative means of exporting...