Word: ruralism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commanding officer of Challenger was a late bloomer. Born in the rural Washington town of Cle Elum (an Indian name meaning swift water), the son of a railroad engineer, Francis R. ("Dick") Scobee began his flying career unglamorously, as an 18-year-old enlisted Air Force mechanic. By attending night school and enrolling in service education programs, he eventually won a degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Arizona that helped him qualify to become an officer and a pilot...
...playground, would "lie flat on his back, stare up at the sky and just smile." That was Sputnik time, when America was racing to catch up to the Soviets. Later it would rely on the help of seven crew-cut white pilots, extraordinary role models for a rural Southern black youth who picked tobacco to earn pocket money. In 1984 McNair became the second black man in space (after Guion Bluford in 1983), flawlessly launching a $75 million communications satellite from Challenger's cargo bay and lightening the mood by wearing a black beret and dark glasses and holding...
...years, many Filipinos were not so sure. Less than two weeks before some 30 million voters are expected to go to the polls on Feb. 7, the strange election exercise that has mesmerized the Philippines since November had blossomed into something unexpected: a real race. As city and rural folk thronged in astonishing numbers to Aquino rallies, her campaign organizers extolled the local outpouring as "people power," an antidote for the highly organized and often unscrupulous campaign machine that has kept Marcos in office since 1965. Members of the President's ruling New Society Movement, who had heard their leader...
...biggest danger of fraud, according to NAMFREL Chairman Jose Concepcion, occurs as the padlocked ballot boxes are transported from rural precincts to the municipal halls for canvassing. "On the way, the ballot transporters can make as many stops as they want for snacks, inviting the inspectors along," he says. "Meanwhile, the ballots could be switched or substituted." To prevent such irregularities, Concepcion wants convoys of five to ten cars to accompany the ballot boxes...
...much technicolor, too much flash in the face of the book's grimy realism. Spielberg transforms scenes that portrayed the grim existence of Southern agrarian Blacks into fields of dreamy and idealistic color that resemble an explosion at an Izod Lacoste factory more than they do images of rural life in backwoods Georgia...