Word: searchingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is the best, you know what I'm saying?" says a customer who has traveled to the ends of the earth, as far as Brick Town and Closter, N.J., in search of the perfect Italian bread. "I like it for sandwiches. Especially with pepper and eggs." Another customer says he's been to Italy six times, but this bread is better. Giordano's bread is the best, even when stale, says a woman in a mink-paw coat and a new Volvo. She likes to grind it up for stuffed artichokes...
...driving force behind that business is the same as it has always been: youngsters in search of heroes. The main consumers of the cheaper cards are six- to twelve-year-olds, with a smattering of older fans. To capitalize on their voracious appetites, the top three manufacturing concerns still sell a basic candy-store staple: 40 cents packs of 15 or 17 cards with gum, stickers or other bonuses. All the companies appeal to better-heeled and older baseball nuts. Topps, for one, markets more than a dozen specialty issues, including bronze and silver replicas, through hobby dealers. The company...
While the frigate dawdled along, its search radar sweeping the skies in a 225-mile radius, other American military eyes were also watching the gulf. Earlier, an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) surveillance plane had taken off from its base in Saudi Arabia, which operated the electronics-laden Boeing 707 jointly with the U.S. On radar, the combined U.S.-Saudi crew detected a single Iraqi Mirage F-1 aircraft as it lifted off from the Shaibah military airport ten miles southwest of Basra at around 8 p.m. Heading southeast along Saudi Arabia's coast as Iraqi planes often...
Twenty thousand feet overhead, the AWACS crew had noted the Iraqi jet's search radar sweeping the Stark. But the airborne observers too failed to detect any evidence that the frigate had been targeted. At 10:10 p.m., however, the AWACS crew was startled to see the fighter suddenly bank sharply to the south, then circle tightly and dart northward toward its home base...
...rhythmic prose. Nevertheless, her range is considerably greater than is common among her despair-addicted contemporaries, as is her fugitive grace. Where Ann Beattie's characters, for instance, are habitually on Valium, Phillips' are generally on speed; while Beattie's have surrendered to nothingness, Phillips' are still in search of something. Nearly all the stories in Fast Lanes are, like their characters, fascinated with gymnasts, tightrope walkers and others who find ways to steady and ground themselves. And the best of them achieve that same happy balance of passion and precision that one Phillips character imagines from an angelic piper...