Word: misses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next morning four MiGs attack the BM-13 and Oerlikon positions, dropping their tons of high explosives and vanishing as quickly as they appeared. The bombs miss by a wide margin. Less than an hour later mujahedin rockets are once again falling on Barikot. The war goes...
...which so illuminates that culture's history and aspirations. Consider, too, the Busch-Reisinger's "bucolic" locale, its small size and relaxed atmosphere--things which make it one of those rare student retreats so essential to the preservation of one's sanity come finals. I, for one, will sorely miss lunching in the Busch-Reisinger's sunny courtyard, attending organ recitals in Kuhn Hall, and dropping in to peruse the gallery on a rainy afternoon. If the administration needs more office space, why not lump a few more concrete slabs atop the Holyoke Center--surely no one would object...
...many, such Taylor stories as In the Miro District and The Old Forest have come to exemplify the current state of the art. The phenomenon of an established master attempting only his second novel, $ and his first in 36 years, is one that devotees will not want to miss...
...getting so that the Miss America Pageant is not such a pretty sight anymore. All that controversy: feminists rapping the contest as a meat rack on a runway; Vanessa Williams' 1984 Penthouse revelations; her 1985 successor, Sharlene Wells, getting razzed by some for being squeaky clean to the opposite extreme. And this year, a very unladylike catfight breaks out in the press after the crown goes to Tennessee's Kellye Cash. At last count, Miss Florida, Molly Pesce, had been quoted as calling the new Miss America the "least-liked girl" in the pageant; Miss Ohio, Mary Zilba, had complained...
...consensus at the symposium: self-deprecating humor is a President's best friend and weapon. "The chance to be seen as a warm, relaxed human being with a twinkle-in-the-eye approach to himself is just too good an opportunity to miss," said Bob Orben, a leading gag writer and author of many of Ford's best lines. "Humor reaches out, puts a warm, affectionate arm around an audience and says, 'I am one of you. I understand you.' If you can laugh together, you can vote together...