Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worry. Thanks to a miracle of modern capitalism, The Harvard Guide to Influential Books will soon reach a bookstore near...
...missive last July, after it was passed along to him by Senior Writer Frank Trippett, who received a copy from a friend at a North Carolina newspaper. "I was about halfway through reading it when I started crying," recalls Jaynes. "I thought, if I'm crying, this letter should reach daylight." His instincts proved correct. "Margie's words, as eloquent as they were, brought about a storm of response," he says. "She told me later that she'd been offered new glasses and teeth enough to outfit the state of North Carolina...
...temptation is to reach for the obvious irony: trying to save lives, the father ordered the use of a defoliant that is strongly believed to have caused his son's malignancies and his grandson's disability. But this approach would give My Father, My Son a melodramatic unity it neither has nor needs. The strength of the book resides in its unassuming format, an album of family voices (father, son, wife and mother) that describe without self-pity or too much self-pleading the grave misfortune that has overtaken them...
...rumors of a military coup. I have visited many military camps; I have talked with officers, enlisted men and many wives. I am not one to base everything I know on the reports that reach my desk. I think it is time for me to lead the way and show that it is important for both the military and civilian sectors to get together. One of the ways to end the insurgency is for civilians to cooperate with the military. But I emphasize to the military that they have to earn the confidence and respect of civilians...
Crime Story is the most realistic TV cop show in years, yet the emotions reach almost baroque heights. Looking over the scene of a partner's murder, Torello thrusts his fist through a phone-booth window and sinks into tears. A fatally injured young hood, restrained by a respirator, flails about on his hospital bed in panic and rage. The pilot has enough violence to ignite a season's worth of protests. Yet nothing seems exploitative. In a bravura opening, a wild chase ends with a shoot-out at the house of an anonymous family. After the carnage is over...