Word: pilings
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...ticket out. The era of "grace under pressure" vanished in the early '60s. Burnout is the perfect disorder for an age that lives to some extent under the Doctrine of Discontinuous Selves. It simply declares one's self to be defunct, out of business; from that pile of ash a new self will arise. In the democracy of neurosis, everyone is entitled to his own apocalypse. Burnout becomes the mechanism by which people can enact their serial selves, in somewhat the way that divorce permits serial marriages. In some cases, the serial selves of burnout are like...
...views on segregation." Tom Ellis, 61, a Raleigh lawyer and Helms' most powerful political sponsor, defends his man. "He hates the K.K.K. and those people. Is that what racism is all about?" Asked why none of the 112-person Helms staff is black, Ellis answers: "Not a whole pile have applied...
Rumors that the Rolling Stones might hang up their mikes hit the rock pile last week when Mick Jagger, 37, announced that the group's upcoming U.S. tour will not, as had been speculated, be their last. During a press conference at Philadelphia's J.F.K. Stadium, where the 38-city tour will begin Sept. 25, Jagger made it clear that the Stones-still the best-known rock band in the world-would continue to roll and that Tattoo You, their just-released album, would not be a finale. "Performing is what we do as a living...
Asked whom he had in mind, Bovin pulled from a pile of papers on his desk the summer 1980 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. He pointed to an article co-authored by Colin Gray titled, straightforwardly, "Victory Is Possible." Gray, a conservative nuclear strategist from the Hudson Institute, is now a consultant to the State Department. In the article he theorizes that, with greatly increased offensive and defensive programs, the U.S. could hold casualties in a war to 20 million-"a level compatible with national survival and recovery...
...lacking. Gaping holes between rows of wheat and other crops are evidence of farmers' disinclination to make every inch of land count. To compound the problem, thievery is widespread. Says one Western agricultural expert: "Collective-farm drivers just stop their trucks along the road somewhere and empty a pile of grain on the ground. Then they come back to collect it to feed their own livestock or to sell privately." So pervasive is the practice in major grain-growing areas of the Ukraine that police regularly patrol the roads looking for I tell tale mounds of grain...