Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attraction of the topic does not explain why writers insist on making dramatic molehills out of this political mountain (were George Bernard Shaw alive today, he might have been able to inject some new dramatic tension into the form, but in all likelihood we would have gotten another Back to Methuselah instead of a Major Barbara). What prompts people like Kopit to encroach upon the territory of nuclear arms gurus like Jonathan Schell or Joe Nye, when Kubrick beat them to the atomic punch 24 years...
...Maybe we're making a mountain out of a molehill," said Dean of Freshmen Henry C. Moses. "I don't know if it'll solve the problem, but we may as well try. If some of the keys are turned in, that's good...
...team's valley is another's mountain,however. Princeton, in seventh place in the ECAC,will be scrambling over the next month for a spotin the league's eight-team playoffs...
...from nuclear reactors. When it became apparent that the Department of Energy was dawdling over a hot issue, Congress in 1982 ordered DOE to get a deep nuclear dump in operation by 1998. Last year the department narrowed its candidates to three Western sites: Deaf Smith County, Texas; Yucca Mountain, Nev.; and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington. The deadline of 1998 looked easily attainable...
...They're trackin' a mountain man, they're not chasin' a city slicker," contends Margarette Eckstein, who runs a roadside coffee shop in Burns Junction, Ore. Eckstein remembers Dallas well. "He was a gentle man, minded his own business, bought his gloves and candy bars," recalls the grandmotherly figure. Though she admits Dallas did wrong, she won't help catch him. "I haven't seen him," Eckstein professes, adding in a conspiratorial stage whisper as she delivers the cheeseburgers, "and if I had, I wouldn't tell anybody...