Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real reason why many people today do not want children is their fear that they would produce children as awful as they...
With that burst of regional pride, Jimmy Hayes, 32, tried to explain last week why a visiting reporter from the Washington Post, way up north, had interviewed him at length and then printed such a story. Hayes had good reason to be groping for an explanation: the Post had quoted him as saying that he and Billy Carter had deliberately falsified records concerning loans from the National Bank of Georgia to the family's peanut warehouse in Plains...
...fact, rather than the development of character, we had seen a static retrospective view of types at two stages of life, with little sense of growth between the two ages, which made projection into the "dream" of the future even more difficult. The main reason for this, paradoxically, lies in the main reason for the show's success, the egoism and talents of the performers. From the first moments of parody of the informality of improvisational theater, we were being asked to watch ctors playing parts rather than the parts themselves. The parts became vehicles for the considerable abilities...
...whose main contributions to the national culture are seamy politicians, country music, Astroturf, the Dallas Cowboys, and the Dallas Cowgirls--who are of course, the Dallas Cowboys' female cheerleaders, and the first wave of jiggle video to hit the screens of Omaha. And oil and gas. Still, not much reason for Texans to strut quite so much, or talk quite so loud. But residents of Texas, that bizarre man-child of a nation-state on the Gulf, are notorious bitter-enders--examples of mindless Thermopylae-like heroism stud their history like the turquoise on Waylon Jennings' finger. Witness...
...better on paper than last year and have another year of experience behind us," Geoff Seelen said confidently from Cleveland yesterday. "There is no reason why we can't move up," he said...