Word: roading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STEVE EARLE: COPPERHEAD ROAD (Uni). Songs of sorrow and defiance: a rock- inflected, country-based album that takes long chances with big themes, from the ghosts of Viet Nam to romantic burnout, and does them proud...
...Bilozerchev's natural gifts were nearly destroyed one night in October 1985, when he drove his father's car off a road outside Moscow after celebrating his engagement to Svetlana Serkeli with too much champagne. The bones in his left leg shattered into 40 pieces, and amputation was seriously considered...
Ironically, it is in battle areas such as the heavily Catholic Falls Road district of West Belfast that optimists see Northern Ireland's best chance for ending the killing cycles. Despite the violence and unrelenting tension with Ulster's Protestant majority, daily life for Northern Ireland's Catholics has improved in some respects. Thanks to a $2 billion investment in public housing, for example, the proportion of Belfast dwellings judged unfit for human habitation has shrunk from 25% in 1974 to 10% today. The main beneficiaries have been Catholic residents. Building on that, British and Irish moderates hope, will eventually...
...which, sober analysts contend, has trivialized the political process. A debatable proposition, but never mind; let's get trivial. Candidates who shape their campaigns for TV deserve to be judged, for a few moments anyway, by TV standards. Some themes that have emerged on the road to the November sweeps...
...great Tennessee State track coach Ed Temple, Fennoy had been keeping an eye out for his own Wilma Rudolph. The pigtails, the skinny legs, the scraped knees were not his signal. "It was the smile," he says. Coach Fennoy required her to keep journals on the teams' small road trips and monitored her syntax and spelling. "Where you're going," he told her, "you'll need to express yourself with more than your legs and arms...