Word: quests
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DIED. JESSICA MITFORD, 78, muckraking journalist and best-selling author; of cancer; in Oakland, Calif. In her quest to "embarrass the guilty," Mitford wrote books on the funeral business (The American Way of Death, 1969), the U.S. prison system (Kind and Unusual Punishment, 1973) and obstetrics (The American Way of Birth, 1992). She also wrote about her aristocratic and eccentric British family, from which she was disinherited after eloping with a second cousin in 1936. Her eldest sister was the novelist Nancy Mitford...
...Minneapolis a day earlier, Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson looked on the bright side. "It takes time to hit your stride in a campaign," he said, ignoring Dole's 20-year quest for the presidency. "I sense that Bob is starting to get ready to hit his." That may be so. But Dole is so lame without a script that he might consider skipping the fall debates, where he may prove only that he'll never be ready for prime time...
Mere labor union boilerplate doctrine? Not necessarily. Critics like California Democratic Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi fear that American companies, in their quest for sales are handing China "our technology, our production and our genius, the very blueprints of our economy." President Clinton and Congress, with support from Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole, are renewing China's most-favored-nation trade status. Yet, during his 1992 campaign Clinton pledged, "If other nations refuse to play by our trade rules, we'll play by theirs"--implying that he would retaliate against protectionism. Pressed to explain the gap between his rhetoric and his record...
...undertakes to compensate for his alienation from the world around him by resorting to extraordinary, and often tragic, exertions to reinvent himself in heroic proportions." In Jackson's case that translated into a total identification with the inspiring struggle of the civil rights movement. Unfortunately for him, his quest has played out in the morally murky aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination, which robbed the movement--and the nation--of the one leader capable of playing the role Jackson aspires...
...quest begins with girlhood. "No one forgets adolescence. No one," she assures us. Certainly Friday has not forgotten hers. Apparently being tall in the South in the '50s was considered as gauche as being plump is in the supermodel '90s. Friday spent her teenage years in a height-eliminating, self-annihilating bended plie...