Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since he was fired in November, North has divided his time between his two- acre farmstead in rural Virginia and his lawyer's downtown Washington offices, with perfunctory appearances at Marine headquarters at the Pentagon, where he has a desk in the Office of Manpower and Policy Planning. For once, North is not working overtime. He has ten months to go before reaching the 20- year Marine retirement plateau...
Convicted Murderer Benjamin Berry, 31, went to the electric chair June 7, the first person executed in Louisiana in 28 months. Two days later Alvin Moore Jr., 27, executed for a rape-robbery-murder, became the second. Three days after that, Jimmy Glass, 25, convicted of shooting a rural couple to death, took the chair with a quip: "I'd just as soon be fishing." Then last week Glass's accomplice Jimmy Wingo, 35, declared both innocence and forgiveness ("I do still love you all in Christ") as he became the fourth person to be executed in the state...
...years South Korea has been a problem waiting to happen. Chun seized power in 1980, moving into the vacuum created a year earlier by the assassination of President Park Chung Hee, his longtime mentor. The product of a modest rural background, Chun was graduated from South Korea's military academy in 1955, and is a combat veteran of the Viet Nam War. Chun consolidated his hold in a 1981 presidential election that was conducted under martial law and excluded all but token opposition candidates. Even by South Korea's standards of political legitimacy, the former army general was widely regarded...
...Exile was the bittersweet point of those fond and misty monologues about Lake Wobegon, the tiny, imaginary Minnesota town "that time forgot, that the decades cannot improve." The wry truth was that Garrison Keillor, celebrated shy person, uncorkable parlor baritone, world's tallest radio humorist, could abide the rural Midwest only in memory. Much of his audience had made the same journey, or nearly, and we loved to be persuaded, as we listened on public radio each Saturday to the extraordinary two-hour variety show called A Prairie Home Companion, that we had the same rueful recollections, maybe even...
...displaced, not quite fulfilled by their evenings together swapping naughty secrets. And when this comely sorority is restless, Eastwick suffers, with plagues of sudden storms and cherry pits. The women are witches, you see. And now they dare to pray for the perfect man to save them from rural rectitude: "a tall, dark prince traveling under a curse." Worse luck for the witches, they...