Word: roam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SHADY HILL KIDNAPPING by John Cheever. PBS, Jan. 12, 9 p.m. (E.S.T.). In his own way, John Cheever has been writing about life on earth for the past 50 years. He does not roam very far-usually no farther than one of the tonier suburbs of New York City-but his concerns are universal. He was a logical choice, then, to lead off what promises to be another notable PBS series: American Playhouse, a 25-week program of original works by American writers...
...note of grudging admiration. Liberal Tom Wicker finds Reagan "an able and resourceful political leader whose amiable underplaying reinforces even while it obscures his effectiveness." Right-wing columnists feel much freer in muting their enthusiasm for the President. In the territory where Rowland Evans and Robert Novak roam-and where seldom is heard a discouraging word about Senator Jesse Helms and other rightists-the atmosphere is humid with intrigues, heavy-breathing innuendoes and indirect quotes ("Important conservative Republicans in Congress, while keeping mum publicly, grumble privately that the President has lost control of his own Administration to moderate forces"). Reagan...
Hunted for their meat in some countries and crowded out of favorite hideaways by an expanding human population, no more than about 2,000 of the animals still roam freely in the wild. The dark, white-stockinged creatures are the world's largest wild cattle. Fully grown, a male gaur may measure 6 ft. from hoof to shoulder and weigh nearly 2,000 Ibs. Perhaps wisely, no one has really ever bothered to domesticate the beasts...
...Equines were not seen again in the New World until the Spanish reintroduced them in the 16th century. Yet other species located in the Love pit are still alive and well, even if not in Florida. The diggers, for example, identified the remains of tapirs, piglike animals that still roam the rain forests of South America and Malaysia, ancient beavers and squirrels, and even relatives of the Andean llama...
After all, newspapers are everyone else's data base. They man the courtrooms, roam government's many corridors, endure hours of legislative watch, hover around police stations, pursue nature's floods and disasters. A latticework of such reporting all around the world is gathered by a jointly owned collective, the Associated Press, and its rival United Press International. At a relentless high-speed rate of 1,200 words a minute, 24 hours a day, the wire services supply the printed press, give radio disc jockeys their "rip and read" news, and alert television producers where to dispatch...