Word: neale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American educational system also threatens the family, according to a number of delegates. They denounced bureaucracies, and "amoral indoctrination," and they demanded tax credits for parents who wish to choose private schools that "best correspond to their own moral values." Neal Stafford from Wyoming said of the schools: "You have to do what Washington mandates. That's the way Communism operates, with controlling education of the kids...
...BODY at the edge of the railroad tracks refused to stir as the desert wind dragged the sand toward the rusty cliffs. The stiff blond hair stuck in jagged clumps to the forehead, and the two blue eyes glared, dead mirrors at the cloudless sky. They found Neal Cassady like a bloated Buick at the side of the road, when a tailpipe or a radiator couldn't fix him anymore, when a girl or a joint couldn't set him smiling, when his ex-friend Jack or his ex-wife Carolyn couldn't get him to talk...
...died the way false prophets are supposed to die, washed ashore on the sands of a stillborn ocean, forgotten except in the frenetic words of the man who made him Dean Moriarty, the hero of On the Road. And now they're trying to bring Neal back to life, bring Jack back to life, make Carolyn rich and famous. Don't they know that what's dead is dead, that Neal and Jack are dead, that the fifties are rotting away under Time's tombstone, that the sixties are dead, that Christ! even the seventies are dead...
What do they expect, all of us to pick up and take off, hit the road again as if there were no gas crisis or recession or cold war? Or are we supposed to watch Neal and Jack--and their lover, Carolyn--with that gooey, suicidal depression that tells us we missed it, the glory days of the fifties: Ike on the tee, Steve Allen on the TV, and a nation of ostriches dressing up in goatees, dark glasses and filthy poetry...
...Neal, Nick Nolte cuts, dives and spins with a clowning sensual appeal that overwhelms John Heard as Jack and Sissy Spacek as Carolyn. He twists his shoulders, rolls his eyes and straightens his collar with a sheepish grin that looks alluringly out of place on a man his size. He can never do anything wrong because he's just having fun. He's the kind of guy who never needs a reason--just...