Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Egerton's book is a tough act to follow, even for Craig Claiborne and Paul Prudhomme. Craig Claiborne's Southern Cooking (Times Books; 364 pages; $19.95) is engaging and low key. The New York Times food editor was born in Mississippi, where his mother ran a boardinghouse. Many of these recipes were hers; others were suggested by Claiborne's friends and colleagues. Dishes range from soul to stylish Creole. Among them are such classics as fried chicken and beaten biscuits, as well as what Claiborne bills as "nouveau Southern," charcoal-grilled stuffed quail. Too bad he couldn't resist cliched...
Along with Mabus, Mississippi voters swept a whole team of young, fresh- faced reformers into the statehouse. Mike Moore, 35, a county district attorney who until recently was scarcely known outside his Gulf Coast habitat, was elected attorney general, the youngest since 1912. Pete Johnson, 39, a third-generation politician who counts a grandfather and an uncle among former Mississippi Governors, was elected state auditor, replacing Mabus. Said Johnson: "This has been a mandate that Mississippians want to see our state move forward." In other rites of passage, John Stennis, 86, has announced his retirement after 40 years...
...state stereotyped as piteously poor and prejudiced, Mississippi has shown its eagerness to cast off the plagues of racial politics, an archaic constitution and rural-dominated economics. One recent symbol: the crowning last summer of a black woman, 23-year-old Toni Seawright, as Miss Mississippi. ! Yet the attitude is hardly unanimous. Last week voters finally repealed a 97- year-old constitutional ban on interracial marriage (which had already been struck down by the courts), but they did so by an embarrassingly close...
...unrealistically, to fund the hike without raising taxes. His brashness alone might go a long way toward restoring his state's pride. When asked which state would serve as his model for education reform and economic development, he replied, "The one state that people ought to look at is Mississippi. We're gonna be an inspiration...
Marijuana use wrecks Douglas Ginsburg' s Supreme Court omination. -- Caspar Weinberger retires, and the Pentagon gets Frank Carlucci, a battlewise bureaucrat less leery of compromise. -- Homely but authentic, Paul Simon is moving ahead in the Democratic presidential race. -- Winds of change in Mississippi...