Word: often
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time on my hands, so I asked the editor at the Daily Local News, "Why don't I write a column for you?" I started the column for $22 a week. It was usually very misleading, inaccurate and often quite offensive and irresponsible. Then the Miami Herald offered...
...American flag, that most inspiring of the nation's icons, has come to symbolize a great deal in its 212 years. It celebrates the country's history, its freedoms, and the battles fought to secure those freedoms. It embodies, often in an intensely emotional way, the love and loyalty most Americans feel for their country. It stands for the unity of one nation and for the individual rights of each citizen. And now, because of a landmark ruling by a deeply divided Supreme Court, the American flag represents a land where people have the right to burn the American flag...
...Force One pilot Colonel Ralph Albertazzie had a better idea. When traveling abroad with the President, he was moved by the sight of people weeping when the plane taxied up. But he often flew and landed at night, and the long, graceful fuselage was swallowed by the dark. Albertazzie had small spotlights installed in the plane's horizontal stabilizers to illuminate the flag painted on its towering rudder. Wherever and whenever the President flies, the flag glows; the darker the night, the more spectacular the effect. That, in a way, is the history of the flag. It is not going...
Even on business trips, the baby boomers often want to take their kids along. The travel industry, eager to please, is finding that a little pampering pays...
...politics are often a volatile mix. Add sex, and the mix becomes combustible. A case in point: on June 12 Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art abruptly canceled an exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe's work, which included sadomasochistic and homoerotic photographs. "We really felt this exhibit was at the wrong place at the wrong time," explained museum director Christina Orr-Cahall. "We had the strong potential to become some persons' political platform...