Word: rc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marden, Thames Tradesmen's RC...
...title of this first novel is a trifle misleading. Rick Wheeler, an RC Cola salesman in western Massachusetts, owns very little except a tense marriage with Paige, his wife of five years. In the past, after fights in their small apartment, Rick could escape by driving across the state line to Vermont, where Paige has never been, hence a place that he can claim as his alone. Now even that consolation seems pointless. Six months after her miscarriage, which has driven Rick into self-absorbed guilt and silence, Paige has moved out. The question of whether this marriage...
Mere mention of Claude Dallas can spark a shoving match in any Great Basin saloon or diner. At the Koffeepot Cafe, several miles from the site of Dallas' trial, Tiny, an Idaho-size chunk of a man, bellows about Dallas while nursing a large RC Cola. His reverence for the poacher scarcely exceeds his antipathy for the law. "Pogue being a sumbitch," Tiny admits, "don't make it right that Dallas shot him in the head after shooting him once." But for Tiny, and others, a blistering rancor justified the first bullet...
...THESE INNOCENT conclusions, Hersch constructs a harsh criticism of the way politicians manipulated the crisis by blatantly misusing the American intelligence network for their own advantage. Despite the expert opinion of a team of Air Force intelligence officers that the KAL Boeing jet and a U.S. RC-135 spy plane would be virtually indistinguishable at night, Defense Secretary Weinberger decided himself that the Soviet pilots knew it was a commercial flight...
...generates electricity. We are having fun, trying to draw attention to make it all bubbling and effervescent. Let's face it, it is hype. It is the nature of the product." Even tiny Royal Crown has been drawn into the battle. "Does it leave you feeling flat?" an RC ad asks of new Coke. "Pick yourself up, there is a cola to turn to. RC Cola...