Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Garcia Márquez's women are magnificent. Stern, stoic, preserved by duty and the dynastic urge, they struggle to keep their men sane. The primal mother Ursula, even at the age of 100, is so sure of her ways that no one realizes she is blind...
...date about Vietnam and-while others have said the same thing about such pictures as Alice's Restaurant. The Wild Bunch, and Tell Them Willie. Boy Is Here -I think Breslin may be right. The marathon-with its dark violence, applauding spectators, POW-camp-like barracks, and lack of sane causality-may just be the best medium yet for showing the apocalyptic insanity the war has brought to this country...
...medium getting the message when the FCC received a 900-signature petition from indignant Nassau Bay Texans demanding toll-free service to nearby Houston. Heading the list of signatures was that of Astronaut Rusty Schweickart, followed by those of nine other angered astronauts, members of the Committee on Sane Telephone Service (COSTS). "We find it intolerable," says Mrs. Schweickart, "that in this age of instant communication with men on the moon, we of the space community should be denied basic communications services...