Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good bandits . . . killed off most of the people that made this country interesting to begin with." But Lonesome Dove is surprisingly nonrevisionist in its picture of the West. The good guys still perform stunning heroics with six- shooters, and Indians are faceless villains who whoop when they ride. Yet in its everyday details -- the dust and the spit, the casual conversations about whoring, the pain of a man getting a mesquite thorn removed from his thumb -- this may be the most vividly rendered old West in TV history...
...usually without electricity or running water. The teachers--20 to 25-year-olds who could be from Los Angeles or Topeka or Birmingham or Manhattan--spend their evenings under kerosene lamps, usually alone, writing letters and reading. The nearest movie theater or library can be a five-hour bus ride away...
...politics, you can either be ahead of thewave of public opinion" or under it, Evansexplained, adding, "sometimes you can catch thewave and ride it for an extraordinarily longperiod and make some major changes...
...hour ride of Anders, Borman and Lovell marked the apogee of a decade-long effort. It involved 300,000 engineers, technicians and workers and 20,000 contractors, and it cost $33 billion. The quest also cost the lives of three fellow astronauts: Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee, who had died on the launching pad the previous year. Some critics sneered at the outpouring of ingenuity and treasure. A "moondoggle," one detractor labeled the Apollo 8 flight. A Congressman termed it a "garish spectacle." It could be seen -- and was -- as history's most elaborate form of escapism...
Harvard Real Estate reveals that its plan to build a hotel on Mass Ave. is only the first step toward turning the campus and Harvard Square into a giant theme park. "We've already got the cobblestone sidewalks, an exciting ride below the street, a pastel-colored information booth and a pool of 6500 eager, clean-cut part-time workers to staff it," officials say. Plans are in the works for Michael Jackson to film a 3-D promotional spot for "Six Flags Over Harvard...