Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sawing away on the kitchen table he is building for Mum ("I'm not very good at building-I wonder if it will stand up"). If the skies are fair, he may be in the fields, helping with the shearing. He loves to fall back on a pile of just-shorn wool, burrow down in it, enjoy the aroma, turn his face up and feel the tang of the air, the strength...
This is not fair. To bring a team that the Red Sox trail by two games to Fenway Park when Homer and Hegel need to be pulled from that monstrous pile of unread books is simply not fair...
...people who are looking for anything approaching a sense of community--streets, sidewalks, neighborhoods, shopping areas, any kind of vibrance or variety--Soldiers Field Park is not the place. It's an isolated, pretty, impersonal pile of brick, not very conducive to interaction whether internally or with the outside world. The biggest of all the planners' misconceptions is the assumption that Harvard is attractive not because of the interplay among interesting people and things, but because it's fancy and red brick and has a nice view of the river...
...second major problem with The Final Days grows, oddly enough, out of W&B's phenomenal command of the details: they assume in passage after passage that the reader was as wired into the events of two years ago as they themselves were. In other places, though, they pile on facts as if Simon and Schuster were paying them by the word. We are told, for instance, that Peter Rodino rapped his gavel to open the House Judiciary hearings on impeachment at 1:08 p.m., but you have to flip pages to find out what day the hearings began...
Political Help. Bad as it was, last year would have been much worse except for some promotional windfalls. The auto industry, caught with a massive pile-up of unsold cars, launched lavish ad campaigns to boost sales by offering rebates. Bicentennial promotions also helped. But the most surprising source of ad revenues was the spate of new brands, from toothpaste to cigarettes, turned out by companies seeking a sales edge in a newly competitive climate. In all, 1,023 new brands were introduced in 1975, the largest annual outpouring in twelve years. This year, the pace of new-brand offerings...