Word: michigan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wish I could turn the clock back/to the way my daddy said it was before." Nor that the most powerful moment of Bob Dole's acceptance speech came when he invoked the honor of the father he loved, standing all the way on the train from Kansas to Michigan to visit the son he thought was dying in the hospital. For months the campaign has been played as a custody fight--who would be the better father of our country; whom would you trust, Clinton or Dole, to leave your children with; who is better equipped to help raise...
Outside the Hilton, at the corner of Michigan avenue and Balbo Drive, I stood talking to Winston Spencer Churchill. Churchill was kicking around the world as a correspondent. I noticed he liked to watch the reaction when he stuck out his hand and said, "Hullo, I'm Winston Churchill." For he resembled his grandfather's pictures taken when that young Winston covered the Boer War at the turn of the century--boyish and freckled, greedy for trouble. Now, behind the police lines, Churchill and I chatted with a guilty, voyeur's air, as if awaiting some illegal sporting event...
...front of the Hilton, on Michigan Avenue, two sides of America ground against each other like tectonic plates. Each side cartooned and ridiculed the other so brutally that by now the two seemed to belong almost to different species. The '60s had a genius for excess and caricature. On one side, the love-it-or-leave-it, proud, Middle American, Okie-from-Muskogee, traditionalist nation of squares who supported the cold war assumptions that took Lyndon Johnson ever deeper into Vietnam. On the other side, the "countercultural" young, either flower children or revolutionaries, and their fellow-traveling adult allies...
...PONTIAC, Michigan: After being cleared four times in the past five years on assisted suicide charges, Kevorkian is once again a controversial figure, this time in the suicide of 42 year-old Massachusetts resident Judith Curren. Curren had been suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome and fybromalgia, a painful muscle disorder which left her unable to move. Neither illness is fatal. A report released Monday by the Oakland County medical examiner says that he found no evidence of chronic fatigue syndrome or any other disease. But Curren had been contemplating suicide for four years, and finally against her husband's wishes...
...PONTIAC, Michigan: After being cleared four times in the past five years on assisted suicide charges, Kevorkian is once again a controversial figure, this time in the suicide of 42 year-old Massachusetts resident Judith Curren. Curren had been suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome and fybromalgia, a painful muscle disorder which left her unable to move. Neither illness is fatal. A report released Monday by the Oakland County medical examiner says that he found no evidence of chronic fatigue syndrome or any other disease. But Curren had been contemplating suicide for four years, and finally against her husband's wishes...