Word: manner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...erupted. Mondale and his aides cheered, shook hands and, in a strange gesture for that controlled group, slapped palms in the high-five manner of basketball players celebrating a slam dunk. Mondale a few minutes later strolled out onto the patio, lit a cigar and savored the moment alone. His younger son William, 22, joined him; they talked about, of all things, mosquitoes, which are plaguing North Oaks this summer...
...could buy. "Ferraro will give us the opportunity to get double coverage," exults John Sasso, an aide to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis (the white male who probably would have received the V.P. nod had Mondale played it safe). But there is a risk: the slightest hesitancy or overaggressiveness in manner, any fumbled response to a question or verbal gaffe will be enormously magnified. Ferraro is a streetwise campaigner who has won three elections to Congress as a liberal Democrat from Archie Bunker's district in Queens. (She likes to say, "Archie didn't elect me. Edith...
Daria Walker's life is the picture of domestic bliss. A highly accomplished cook, she spends her days gracefully dishing up all manner of delicacies for her happy husband Ross and two happy daughters, growing herbs and flowers in her backyard in a wealthy Boston suburb, and lavishing love on her dog and two cats. Not just a housewife, Daria is a successful--even mildly famous--cookbook author, with a secretary, an agent, an editor, and adoring fans. In the opening scene of Fly Away Home, she returns from a grueling book promotion tour, aching to be home with...
...same manner, Piercy deals minimally with the complex web of anger and guilt, love and mistrust that a divorce must create for Daria's daughters. The reader feels cheated, suspecting that if she only gave it attention, this author could produce some memorable fiction. Instead, Robin is on Ross's side and Tracy on Daria's, and, Io and behold, it all works...
...other hand, she was equally unwilling to challenge her brothers on a broader scale. The combination of these pressures proved too much for her. Although he identifies other causes, her brother Henry seems to have summarized her life accurately her tragic health was in a manner the only solution for her of the practical problems of life...