Word: quests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also among themselves. Despite Jackson's success in the primaries, many black voters and office holders have mixed feelings about accepting him as their pre-eminent powerbroker. This division was apparent during the nomination race, when some black leaders felt obligated or eager to join his historic quest, while others chose to support Mondale. The eventual lineups left recriminations on both sides, especially in the South. In South Carolina, for example, black State Senate Candidate McKinley Washington Jr., a Mondale supporter, has complained that Jackson backers in his district, which is 54% black, threatened to sit out his race...
...Mary Lou moves over for Carl Lewis as he goes for the rest in his quest for four; the "Gang of 10s" gymnasts hand off to Mary Decker; the swimmers make way for track and field; and the ongoing sports, like boxing and basketball, get down to particular climaxes, as if there have not been plenty already. The little events continue merrily. A problem with the Olympics is that the perfect vault is followed immediately by the perfect encore, by the national anthem, by the next game, race or relay. The gold medals run together...
...wrung it for all its worth, has dubbed it "Prairie Populist Jeffersonian democracy." A better term is "anything but"--that is, anything but the formulas of the New Deal, from which neoliberals recoil in horror. Despite his deadly earnest attempt, Rothenberg doesn't really help us in the quest for definition. Grouping as disparate politicians as North Carolina's Gov. James Hunt (a conservative in disguise). Timothy Wirth (a high-techie), and former California Gov. Jerry Brown (a flake) under the rubric of neoliberalism only confirms the impression that the label is of use solely to the self-serving cognoscenti...
Predictably, Bastian steals the book and sneaks off to read it. Inside he finds the story of Atreyu's quest to save Fantasia from the Nothing, a terrible force that threatens the fictional world from all sides. Bastian gets caught up in the story and soon finds himself mysteriously cropping up in what he reads; at one exciting moment he screams and immediately reads of Atreyu cringing at the sound. Bastian is drawn in more and more, eventually playing a pivotal role at the story's climax...
...ideal. But the flame feeds on man's diversities as well as similarities. In this portfolio of photographs, TIME portrays some of the men and women who will be competing in Los Angeles. To see them in the places where they have grown is to recognize both a universal quest for excellence and the sustaining powers of home...