Word: sams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sam Raymond, a mechanical engineer from M.I.T. and the founder of Benthos in North Falmouth, the world's leading maker of oceanographic equipment, suggests that Massachusetts has an equation for success. "There's a mother lode of talent in this state," says Raymond. "Combine that with the liberal ethic and you have a society that stimulates creativity." That is precisely what Governor Dukakis wants to accomplish: to make the state work "so that the extraordinary becomes a permanent fixture." For a state that has traditionally made the extraordinary ordinary, that should not be so hard a task. -- By Lance Morrow...
...cannot also say that Texas is small. But if you say Texas is historically glorious, you can equally say that Texas has been ugly and mean, a nest of fire ants and rattlesnakes and men somewhat worse. If you say it is heroic, you might also point out that Sam Houston, when he lived among the Cherokees, was known as Big Drunk. If you say Texas is rich, you can also say it is desperately poor and hardscrabble, and always has been. If you say it is ruggedly individualistic, you can also say it is meritlessly lucky to be built...
...Samantha Baker's 16th birthday, but her preoccupied parents have forgotten it. Sam (Ringwald) is a sophomore, in strangulated love with a dishy senior (Michael Schoeffling) and shadowed by a crypto-hip freshman called the Geek (Anthony Michael Hall), who, in one of his more winsome moments, asks Sam if he can borrow her underpants. The plot, which will be reprised in Pretty in Pink, is familiar from schlock immemorial, but Hughes' acute ear for teen talk makes it fresh and funny. Listen to Sam and her girlfriend Randy (Liane Curtis) wax ironic on every girl's dream...
Europe: Lawrence Malkin London: Christopher Ogden, Mary Cronin, Steven Holmes, William Rademaekers Paris: Jordan Bonfante, B. J. Phillips, Adam Zagorin Bonn: William McWhirter, John Kohan Rome: Erik Amfitheatrof, Sam Allis, Wilton Wynn Eastern Europe: Kenneth W. Banta Moscow: James O. Jackson Jerusalem: Roland Flamini Middle East: Dean Fischer Cairo: John Borrell Bahrain: Barry Hillenbrand Nairobi: James Wilde Johannesburg: Bruce W. Nelan New Delhi: Ross H. Munro Bangkok: James Willwerth Peking: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Sandra Burton, Bing W. Wong Tokyo: Edwin M. Reingold, Yukinori Ishikawa Melbourne: John Dunn Canada: Peter Stoler, Ed Ogle Caribbean: Bernard Diederich Mexico City: Harry Kelly...
...morning last week Sam Morotola, the president of the local antiapartheid students' congress, was awakened by gunshots outside his small home in Atteridgeville, a black township near Pretoria. Seconds later, a marauder hurled a hand grenade at his house, blowing a hole in one wall. Morotola, who had been sleeping in a room in another part of the house, escaped harm, but his 18-year-old cousin was injured in the blast...