Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Behind the statistics and new policies so shrewdly written up in the great, gray Washington buildings are people and families and the small cultures of communities that have gone on for four or five generations. It is particularly poignant with the family ranchers, not the King Ranch of almost 1 million oil- rich Texas acres or the Mormon church's Deseret Ranch in Florida, which runs 34,000 head of cattle. The big combines will survive. But the little guys are in jeopardy, a thin denim line of about 250,000 from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico...
...revealed in his 90-minute TV chat last week with talk-show empathizer Oprah Winfrey, Jackson is at heart as vulnerable as the handicapped children he generously welcomes to his ranch near Santa Barbara, California. He calls it Neverland, an allusion to his status as pop's Peter Pan. But Jackson may feel more kinship with another English outsider, John Merrick -- that sweet-souled, tragically deformed creature, the Elephant Man. "I love the story," he told Winfrey. "It reminds me of me a lot . . . It made me cry because I saw myself in the story...
Over the past several years, this small town located about five hours from Denver has become internationally famous. Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn have a ranch near here. Ivana and Donald Trump had their famous blowup over Marla Maples here. Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith breeze in and out of town...
...Ronnie is asleep on his ranch. Madonna is anything but a virgin. Both Larry and Magic have stepped aside for His Airness and a man called The Shaq. And the Harvard men's rugby squad is on the verge of another national championship...
George Bush--Bush should retire to a ranch in Grenada with Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Mikhail S. Gorbachev. They can watch tapes of that invasion, the Gulf War, the Falklands, Afghanistan and, of course, nightly reprisals of "Bedtime for Bonzo...