Word: sadnesses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...change of leadership in the State House. The more scrupulous Michael S. Dukakis will succeed Gov. Edward J. King in January. King's four years in office have been characterized by political--and sometimes illegal--horsetrading, not by principled progress on important problems. It is only appropriate, then, though sad, that he should go out in this style...
...sad fact is that from Washington s point of view those allegations are often justified. When Israel invaded Lebanon last June, the 7,000-member...
Enter ecology, inflation. Exit infinite space. In no time flat the American automobile industry is reduced to a tragicomic opera, with Lee Iacocca as chief of the sad clowns, and a cast of thousands unemployed. Art imitates death. The Solid Gold Cadillac disintegrates pathetically into My Mother the Car, then goes nuts entirely. In 1977 Hollywood produces The Car, a movie equally moronic and spellbinding, in which a driverless sedan plays mass murderer. No Freudians necessary. The only medium to keep the faith is television, always a cultural anachronism, with the cop shows half consumed with cars chasing cars. Even...
...sad that such a bright, young reporter just failed to take anything other than "pride swallowing" into account in his superficial effort to explain why candidates for chairman did not run for lower offices...
...Sad things are happening. I once was known as a great prognosticator. The Great Prognosticator, they used to call me. Now look where I am Fallen to second place in the chart. Limping along at 60 percent accuracy. Suffering sleepless nights. Having stray dogs turn the other way as I walk by. I just won't settle for it anymore...