Word: ol
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American housing crisis is simply a variation ol the American car crisis: in years past, both were overbuilt Now in housing as in cars, Americans are suffering the discomforts oi what Detroit calls "downsizing." The ultimate result could be both better transportation and better shelter. Maybe...
...could be the headquarters of any good ol' Southern politician almost anywhere, any time. The cluttered rooms are on the second floor of a Raleigh office building. The folks in charge are soft-spoken and unassuming, shying away from taking credit for any special genius or any real authority. Yet Jesse Helms' Congressional Club is the very model of modern, high-technology politics, a shrewd mating of computers and direct mail. Helms and his minions have built what amounts to their own nationwide political machine. It has combined newfangled fund raising with old-fashioned mud slinging to become...
...Keneally explores inConfederates. He describes the soldiers of Virginia in 1862--already accustomed to the lice which infest their ragged uniforms, to the diarrhea which attacks their bowels. They have established their own social hierarchy as new soldiers yield to crotchety veterans and all share a degree of good-ol-boy autonomy. They see their side as the "democratic army," in which the soldiers elect all of their officers except generals and orders drift down through the ranks only as vague suggestions...
...discussion was interrupted momentarily by the arrival of Rodney Pearson, Winthrop House business tutor and erstwhile scrimmager against the Ol' Miss. women's hoop squad, currently ranked tenth in the nation. Pearson turned out to be a women's Cager fan as well...
...stone statue and the president goes quietly nuts. Mixed in with the infrequent stabs at humor (The Upper Gormese president tells Link: "We have everything a civilized country needs but a repressed minority.") are dull sequences, foolish jokes and a handful of racist portrayals. Back in the good ol' U.S.A., Link's advisers kill him off (well, not really) and the vice president (Bob Dishy) dies of a heart attack from the shock of becoming president...