Word: rods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When he's ready to hit the word processor, McGuane heads out to his office, a freestanding shed with a porch overlooking the banks of the Boulder River. By the door is a fishing rod he keeps just in case the trout start to jump. Fishing, McGuane explains, is just another way for him to stay in touch with the "spirit and poetry of the natural world." Maintaining a primal connection to the environment is essential to McGuane, for both his peace of mind and his work. "I feel strongly that writers need to be some place," he says...
...lisp is less evident now, and any thoughts one may have had of this man idling afternoons away over a fishing rod disappear. Abruptly, he turns away from his quarterback and stalks downfield toward the defense. Out of the corners of their eyes, the helmeted giants and his assistant coaches see him coming. Chests tighten. The execution and speed of the defensive drills rev up a notch. The simple reason: no one is eager to receive one-on-one remedial instruction from Louis Leo Holtz on this or any upcoming autumn afternoon...
Such attractions were rare on mainstream TV in the past. Rod Serling's Twilight Zone served up some chills, but it was less interested in frightening the viewer than in offering moral parables. Star Trek will forever be enshrined in TV's science-fiction pantheon, but it wasn't nearly so scary as the sight of the cast members growing old in the movies that have followed. The 1960s anthology series The Outer Limits represented the outer limit of TV's flirtation with the fantastic, while Kolchak: The Night Stalker was the closest the medium ever got to a good...
When companies do buy new gear, they are rapidly downsizing, junking their mainframes in favor of smaller, more flexible workstations, made by companies like Sun Microsystems. Because of this shift, mainframe sales are expanding only about 5% annually, less than half the rate of a few years ago. Says Rod Canion, president of Houston-based Compaq: "The rules are changing, and it's very difficult for the big-computer makers to accept." At the other end of the spectrum, some PC makers are getting hit with a different problem: a glut of machines. Says Michael Dell, who heads an Austin...
Just as she did with her first LP. Etheridge has made a record of straight-ahead, stripped down rock and roll in which her throaty, deep. haunted voice (she may remind you of a more melodic. female version of Rod Stewart) overpowers the thin instrumentation of her band. You will only listen to her passionate voice, not the rather boring bass, drums and guitar behind...