Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...midst of the distractions (not to mention the quest for batteries), TIME relied on a panel of five-year-old experts: Brian Alexander advised his father, Economy & Business Senior Editor Charles Alexander, who, in turn, helped the writers with the business aspects of toys; Sam Cocks, whose dad Contributor Jay Cocks reviewed the more popular toys; and Julian Graham, whose mother Megan Rutherford helped research the stories. Brian tested the robots, while Julian and Sam went into the field (an F.A.O. Schwarz toy store in New York City), where they particularly approved of the trains and educational computers. Says...
...views about the Iran-contra affair in public last week, during a speech to Republican Governors gathered in Parsippany, N.J. He chided those sniping at the President, declaring, "His critics should get off his back so that the President does not lose two precious years in his quest for peace. Don't, don't weaken...
...Mcdonald worked forward and backward to fill in his story. In this volume, Fletch sets off to Kenya in search of his father, who has apparently resurfaced after being presumed dead for 20 years. At least one prominent mystery scholar sees the Fletch cycle as a high-minded quest for identity. Less academic readers will find it rakish...
...Beanpot, however, is still a long way off. In the meantime, expect Harvard's dynamic duo to generate a lot of sparks during the Crimson's quest for a league title...
...time and into a sacred stillness. The images, handsomely sculpted, address themes of life and death and life after death. Gods and gargoyles hover in the cramped air, dwarfing all human anxieties. Man is a mite here, pitiable in his ignorance of what matters, or else vainglorious in his quest to find the answers to riddles beyond his solving...