Word: loding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike gold prospectors, novelists must pick nuggets out of their heads. Both occupations seem to attract similar characters: stubborn loners who sacrifice time and ties for a big elusive payoff. John A. Williams, 56, has written more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction without striking a mother lode. He is a good writer with a big theme: being black in America. By now every honest citizen should know that racism is a national birth defect, which, in the absence of a cure, requires ceaseless applications of justice. This cry is implicit in Williams' work, though most readers...
...ultramilitant Red Brigades splinter group called Prima Linea, or Front Line. Those arrests in turn led to the discovery of a secret Rome hideout, which, remarkably, was used as a medical facility where terrorists wounded in police shootouts could come for emergency care. Soon afterward, police discovered another rich lode of Prima Linea documents and photos in a Naples safe house...
...conceived actions that are raising questions about the Administration's sensitivity to issues of fairness and racial justice. The President compounded the uneasiness by projecting, with amiable vacuity, an unsteady hand on the tiller of state at his seventh press conference last week. He displayed a disconcerting lode of misinformation (see box), and a dubious grasp of the details of his own programs. The performance raised new questions about Reagan's control of the presidency, which were being asked even by some of the far rightists who helped elect him. At a meeting of conservatives organized...
...just another big word." Or maybe: "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." The perfect allegorical hero for De Vries might be a Dutch Calvinist furniture mover from Chicago (like De Vries' father), carrying the world on his shoulders-especially the heavy end with the lode of guilt...
...once have considered a metallic accessory to be on the order of rings, bracelets, necklaces and earrings. Beyond that, anything more than a gold-accent belt or an evening clutch in gold thread was generally regarded as rather tacky. Now, however, the fashion industry has struck a mother lode in a new sort of metallics. The season's liveliest accessories-belts, buckles, totes, handbags, scarves, T shirts, sandals, shoes and hats-are flashing and gleaming with finishes of gold, silver, bronze, copper, pewter and even anthracite. Nor does the style show any signs of fading with the summer...