Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...item concerning Farrah Fawcett in the People column [July 4] was in poor taste. When you consider how many famous people have been murdered or wounded in recent years by crazed assailants, it is unforgivable to make fun of an incident in which a strange man leaps onto the stage and threatens the actress. She showed courage in the way she handled herself...
...sometimes weirdly askew. But it reflects a larger cross-cultural longing. In some ways, America and Japan are interesting commentaries on each other. The Japanese affinity for Americans represents in part the simple attraction of opposites. The Japanese live an intricate and compact life?119 million of them crowded onto islands the size of Montana. No new blood, or little, has entered the Japanese gene pool for 1,200 years. Americans are a sprawlingly expansive people whose years. Americans are a sprawlingly expansive people whose chromosomes are a genetic brawl, an ingathering from all the tribes of the world. America...
...would be difficult to imagine a more unlikely partnership than the U.S.Japanese alliance. One nation is ancient and culturally homogeneous, crowded onto an archipelago at the edge of Asia. The other is an ethnic melting pot, with European roots, that spreads across a continent. Both are troubled by memories of a global war that inaugurated the nuclear age, terribly and personally for each. Still, over the past three decades the U.S. and Japan have managed to forge what U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo Mike Mansfield calls "the most important single bilateral relationship, bar none." An American with long experience in Japan...
...entourage steers her (still talking) toward the studio. Sprinting through a door into a living room-like set, she drops daintily onto a white sofa. A quick glance into a hand mirror. Perfection. As the television camera's red light blinks on, she smiles serenely into the lens as if she had spent the entire morning becalmed in the tranquillity of a tea ceremony...
...life brought on a panic and depression which my grandparent could never have induced and which kept me indoors for several weeks, with little incentive even to wash or eat I had once read somewhere that each newly acquired piece of knowledge etches a fresh wrinkle onto one's brain. With horror, I visualized my cerebrum as smooth as a baby's bottom I had obviously been fooling myself, to believe that I could escape from thinking without effacing my self-respect in the process Once my fit of self-contempt subsided, I took steps to register as a sophomore...