Word: movingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the prose poems in this memoir of Viet Nam amount to Polaroids hastily snapped before the mind forgets what it has witnessed: children rioting over candy at a Saigon orphanage; a bar girl singing to a G.I. ("You give me baby./ I give you V.D."). But as the...
Indeed, more and more parents seem to want their children to look not only nice but striking and even chic. This trend has created a boom for sellers of upscale children's clothes and accessories. At Baby Boxers, a Los Angeles manufacturer, items like $28 print shirts have pushed sales...
Out in the sea of people on San Francisco's piers 30-32, Dave Graham in his windbreaker resembled a small blue buoy. As BB-63 slowly eased to a berth, Graham was moving his arms briskly and systematically as if conducting an orchestra. Four stories up on the ship...
The group in the Roosevelt Room already has priorities: win tax reform in the summer, then battle to keep the Republican Senate in the fall. Move from there to budget restraint, welfare reform, insurance against catastrophic illness. Above all, keep moving.
That is not a hard prescription for Ronald Reagan. To keep moving is his nature. Furthermore, his standing with the public is bolstered by a mighty reserve: Nancy. A special Wirthlin reading on the personal appeal of the big power players, which he dubs the "thermometer rating," with temperatures from...