Word: mississippi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wojciech Jaruzelski announces that the "state of war" in his country has been downgraded to the "state of Mississippi." In the face of criticism from the West, Jaruzelski declares sternly, "This is no different from the United States, the Gulf region to be exact." Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk is reported churning out three sternwheelers a week...
...reader is plunged into a make belief, not a make-believe world. Herman Melville's novel The Confidence-Man was an early and largely forgotten guide. More studied than read, the book conjured up a group of impostors, gamblers, land agents and divines on an 1850s Mississippi riverboat. The only one to suffer loss of innocence on the trip was the reader, who had been exposed to a masquerade of identities and motivations. He was left with a befuddling sense of life as it is lived but rarely understood...
...main lesson of the long, chaotic weekend was that the budgetmaking machinery of the Government had broken down. "The process stinks," said House Republican Whip Trent Lott of Mississippi. House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois derided the deadline jockeying as a "flimflam." The experience, said Oregon Republican Mark Hatfield, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, was a "political nightmare...
...tiger-tamer in safari costume; the awkwardly toupeed M.C. rehearsing the moment when he's supposed to crack the pressure of the event; the "lady"--an actress whom the contestant loved from afar when she lived near him as a boy--who doesn't want to go back to Mississippi with him "and cook okra and have everybody call me a whore;" and, finally, the contestant himself, an elongated, hick-Frankenstein monster scared shitless at the prospect of being torn to shreds. In between the producer virtually masturbates to the commercials, announcements and alarums on his video monitor...
...deadline for ratification is June 30, 1982. NOW is concentrating its final campaign for ERA passage in the 15 states where the amendment has not yet passed: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, and Virginia. Conservative legislators and lobbyists have led a sophisticated campaign to block ratification, while the citizens who favor the ERA have remained largely silent or called the amendment a dead issue...