Word: manly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believing in Dances with Wolves. "You know how Americans setting foot in another country sometimes feel totally at home?" he asks. "Well, for me, a country road has always felt really right. The notion of a man on a horse, carrying all his possessions on his back, totally self-sufficient, is really romantic to me. When I was 18," the actor boasts, "I split L.A. and built a canoe, which I paddled down the rivers that Lewis and Clark navigated while they were making their way to the Pacific. So it's not surprising to me that I'm making...
...SECRET HISTORY by Paul Theroux (Putnam; $21.95). Theroux has grown famous writing both novels and travel books. Now he produces an entertaining fiction about a man who does both, a teasingly autobiographical portrait of the artist as a young stud...
...MANIACS: BLIND MAN'S ZOO (Elektra). Love songs like petitions, songs of conscience that come straight from the heart. This is a band with folkie inclinations, rock grit and a graceful way with a cry of pain. Poison in the Well, an unfortunately timely tune about environmental pollution, ought to be piped into the Exxon boardroom...
Quayle in fact resembles the activist Mondale model of a Vice President far more than the invisible-man version perfected by Bush. The difference is the heart of Quayle's salvation strategy. He staggered through the election branded an overprivileged airhead. As candidates or incumbents, Vice Presidents often attract some derision. For the young golf addict, it was a nearly lethal dose. "I came to the office adding a bit of luster to that ridicule," he muses. Allies advised him to go underground, to avoid risks. But with escalating speculation that Bush would dump him in 1992, Quayle...
...George Gipp of Notre Dame was a low-life gambler who openly bet on his own football games and everything else from cards and craps to flies landing on sugar cubes. Gipp seldom attended class and only occasionally graced football practice. The sentimental writer Red Smith, a Notre Dame man himself, used to refer to the great dead hero as "the patron saint of eight-ball pool...