Word: plaines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every leaper, there are scores of San Franciscans who believe they have found the heavenly city. The reasons are unusually plain. There is the rich, Hopperesque sunlight. There is the cooling fog. And the sea breezes skittering up and down the hills. And the abounding good will. If San Francisco insists on delighting in itself, and even showing off - with the All-Star Game this week, the Democrats next and the Super Bowl come winter - 1984 is the year it deserves to be indulged...
...goes this plain tale. The fascination is in the telling. Jean, Mitch and their children present their first-person stories alternately, and the hastening tumble of years can be read in the chapter headings: "War Letters: Mitch, 1942-45," "Anniversary Song: Jean, 1948," "War Letters: Billy, 1970." "All those winters the family stayed put, just ate food they'd dried or put up in pantries, and venison the old man shot. They kept one path shoveled through the snow to the barn, and the walls of the path were as high as a man's shoulders. I know...
While available in plain vanilla, Tofutti best masks the aftertaste of its novel ingredient with strident flavors such as banana-pecan and forest maple. In Texas, the bestseller is made by swirling peanut butter and chocolate flavors together into something that tastes like a Reese's Cup. Aficionados swear Tofutti is better than ice cream. Says one: "If you eat it too fast, you even get the headache...
...faces a "graveyard" of actors, each sitting in front of a television set, eyes riveted on the screen. He listens to the ghost of his dead friend. Moritz (Christopher Moore) attempt to lure him center-stage, into the graveyard. Moritz, heavily made up, gesturing dramatically and Melchior appearing plain and vulnerable under a dim natural light, create a startling contrast. As Moritz describes the wonders of death, the escape from pain, suffering and memory; Melchior listens silently, confused and afraid. Their confrontation is one between theatricality and human drama...
Presidents cannot give up. Reagan, while recovering from his gunshot wound, wrote out six or seven pages to Brezhnev with his feelings about making the world better for the plain people of both countries. The President showed his draft to the bureaucrats, who translated it into incomprehensible language. Reagan rejected the rewrite and sent his version instead. Back came the boiler plate...