Word: patly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lead in the polls notwithstanding, Mondale still has not generated much intensity among voters. "He's being too cautious," says Pat Butler, an editor of the Fairmont (Minn.) Daily Sentinel. "If he doesn't get more specific, he might blow it." As the debate showed, Mondale has some hard questions to answer, such as how he really plans to reduce the deficit and pay off all those promises to interest groups. His high perch is fragile. Beneath him, the hounds are milling and jumping, barking to be heard. -By Evan Thomas. Reported by Hays Gorey/Washington and Christopher Ogden...
...competitions at the National Sports Festival in each of the off years, and last July a team of 27 was selected largely by Coach Lou Vairo, a jovial former shinny player from that hockey hotbed Brooklyn. The star of the team, the center of "the Diaper Line," is Pat LaFontaine, 18, the No. 1 draft choice of the New York Islanders...
...precocious talent indeed. Even with two grizzled veterans from 1980 (Captain Phil Verchota, 27, and John Harrington, 26, both forwards) returning to the '84 team, its average age is only 20.7 years-the youngest in U.S. Olympic hockey history. Leading the offense is "the Diaper Line": Center Pat LaFontaine, 18, and Wings David A. Jensen, 18, and Ed Olczyk, 17. LaFontaine, sweet-natured and teen-idol cute, left his home in Pontiac, Mich., in 1982 to sharpen his skills in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, where he scored 104 goals to break records set by Islander Mike Bossy...
Readers familiar with Cardinal's novel in the original French have raised some objections about what they feel is a loose and even inaccurate translation by Patricia Goodheart, but Cardinal says. "I think it is a very good translation, I helped with a few words here and there. But Pat understood the most important aspects of the book--the rhythm, the sound it makes. After all, American is American, French is French. Sometimes you can't translate word for word. I don't feel I have been betrayed if the translation of song words is not exact...
...become of some of Nixon's enemies, the people who, over the years, thought that they had left him for dead. John Kennedy, for example, buried 20 years ago, has undergone some savage revisionism that held him to be a second-rate President and an indiscreet philanderer. Pat Brown, who won the 1962 California gubernatorial race that supposedly ended Nixon's career ("You won't have Nixon to kick around any more . .. this is my last press conference") was superseded by an ideological antithesis, Ronald Reagan, and eventually by Brown's son Jerry...