Word: packed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...China, Board, and recognize cabinmases: Dan and Francine, the hand-holding couple asking directions to the Mongolian Embassy, and Eddy, the German with the bell on his pack at the Russian Embassy, Farewell champagne toasts on platform 7 a.m. departure, Great Wall. Noodle soup with Chinese scientist in the dining car. Talk about China; big cheer from English students as we leave. Chinese home movies at Er Lian station: "Peasant Tourist Makes Visit to Scenic Spot...
TIMOTHY CROUSE writes about it in his literary ode to reporters on the tortuous campaign trail: It's the fear of missing the assasination or the major gaffe that finally rolls every member of the pack out of the sack at some ungodly hour day after day. But not even the most hard-assed editor would have legitimately expected his reporter to be there on October 21, when Michigan Republican gubernatorial candidate Richard Headlee dropped the campaign's bombshell and dramatically dashed his fortunes...
...more surprised than Liquori or any of the race's spectators was Schlesinger himself. "I didn't expect to do nearly as well as I wound up doing," he recalls Schlesinger ran for most of the race with the leading pack of 20 or 30 runners. He maintained his pace in the final miles, while others dropped...
...whip his ass" (Ted Kennedy's) was orchestrated better than Carter's State of the Union addresses. Even Harry Truman's most famous explosions were in private. Nixon once got angry at reporters, grabbed Press Secretary Ron Ziegler and pushed him toward the panting pack, snapping, "I don't want any press with me." Mild stuff, really; after all, Presidents spend their formative years learning to control their emotions...
...class can adopt a starving Guatemalan child; Jennifer DeNuccio, a prototypical Valley Girl ("Like ... pass me out the door"); and a drama teacher who wants to stage a show called A Cafeteria Line and exhorts his aspiring actors to "share a trauma with me." Beatts, Friedman and their writers pack solid laughs, a little sentiment and sidelong satire of such youth-oriented enterprises as Grease and Fame all into a fleet half-hour. So far, Square Pegs is the sweetest surprise of the season. -By Jay Cocks