Word: pontchartrain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stop was not Reaganesque (20,000 adoring college students) or Bushian (mom and pop and the kids in the city square). Dole's crowds were 400 and 600, often at small, third-tier colleges, and they were Republican believers. One night, on the Wednesday before the voting, at the Pontchartrain Center outside New Orleans, about 700 people showed up, a big crowd. It was dinnertime, after work, and they could have been home relaxing, watching TV, helping with homework, but instead they got in the van and drove on the highway to stand and cheer for a man who they...
...hell. After the mother of his three young daughters dies, he marries Aimee Desiree, a wild Creole beauty half his age. The marriage -- and the faithless Aimee Desiree -- is doomed. She meets her fate at 3 a.m. in a white Thunderbird hurtling along a narrow causeway across Lake Pontchartrain. The daughters never hear their father mention her again, but the moment of her passing envelopes each of them. The author understands a fundamental truth about Southerners: to them, she writes, "sweet and sad mean the same thing." Like an expert mixologist, Bosworth measures out life's sorrow in equal proportion...