Word: normans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sonfields': A cozy and homey ride through Norman Rockwell Land...
...Siegfried and Roy with bathos. To a majority of people under 50, I'm convinced, the formal conceit of musicals (a so-so play during which the actors inexplicably sing their hearts out every 10 minutes) is both corny and surreal, like some unpleasant crossbreed of Salvador Dali and Norman Rockwell. We don't buy it, and we haven't bought it since Mary Poppins. Our disbelief refuses to suspend...
...down on New Year's Day, it will mark the first time in 20 years that none of the nation's four largest cities have a black mayor. But Minneapolis, which is 78% white, elected its first black (and first woman) mayor, Sharon Sayles Belton. In Seattle, 75% white, Norman Rice bore the double burden of incumbency and race but nonetheless swept to re-election by a 2-to-1 vote; he has convinced many residents that he is a problem-solving pragmatist whose race is irrelevant. Mayor Michael White, a self-described "pragmatic idealist," won a second term...
...Latin way out of this," he has enlisted Rafael Pantaleon, a former Dominican Republic ambassador to the U.N. Pantaleon is operating with the "complete knowledge and approval" of Dominican President Joaquin Balaguer, says Kattke, adding that Balaguer "hates Aristide from way back." Also in the Garrison-Kattke loop is Norman Bailey, chief economist for the National Security Council during the Reagan years, who explains, "We want to get Haiti back on track economically...
...When Norman and his neighbors joined forces, they also joined thousands of others across the country in a grass-roots movement that a few years ago seemed most unlikely: fighting major retailers trying to move into their neighborhoods. After years of passively accepting -- sometimes even welcoming -- the likes of Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Payless Drug Stores, K Mart and Price Club, residents are now protesting in the streets and hectoring at town planning meetings. They feel they are now wise to the disadvantages such stores bring: increased traffic, air pollution and cannibalization of their hometown retailers. Add modern media savvy...