Word: presentational
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago presciently warned of the breakdown of the black ghetto family, rejected the idea that Democratic programs should be blamed for creating a dependency on Government, which aggravated the underclass crisis. "It has become a belief bordering on prejudice," he said, "that the social ills of the present are the consequence of misguided Democratic social policies of the past two generations. None hold to this belief more guiltily, if furtively, than the Democrats." His party, Moynihan observed, is in "worse shape nationally than since the aftermath of the Civil War." He urged his colleagues to seek fresh ideas that...
Throughout the campaign, supporters of the amendment stressed humanitarian issues, pointing to the suffering of an estimated 70,000 Irish couples saddled with untenable marriages. Under present law, husband and wife must either endure their life together, however unpleasant, or unofficially separate. The latter course brings further problems: since children born of other unions will be illegitimate, inheritances will go not to them but to the legal spouse, however long separated. The amendment would have permitted couples to divorce after they showed that their marriage had failed for five years and that there was no hope for its rescue...
...what was once risque is now passe, not to mention money losing. This week Hefner is closing the three remaining (out of a high of 17) Playboy-owned clubs, in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles. Reunions in the latter two last week brought out more than 300 present and former bunnies for a final hop down memory lane. "There was glamour, there was excitement. We met a lot of stars," reminisced Liz Kay, who helped open the Chicago club in 1960. A nostalgic Hefner, 60, made the West Coast party and called the bunnies and clubs "a reflection...
Since VCRs have become the current wedding present of choice and hence may not be available to some couples until it is too late for Miss Manners' tape to be of any prenuptial planning benefit, some more immediate guidance may be called for. Remember the solemn words of Ted Schmidt, general manager of the socially favored Peter Duchin Orchestras: "For weddings, there are no second takes." All right, then. Action...
...good news is that the past is still very much alive in William Trevor's latest stories. As in previous collections, such as The Day We Got Drunk on Cake and Lovers of Their Time, national and personal histories cast a haunting twilight over a lonely present. This works particularly well in the title story of The News from Ireland, which is set in the 1840s. That, of course, is the period of the great famine that sent more than 1 million Irish to the New World. It is also the time when a family of English Protestants named Pulvertaft...