Word: shadows
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...standard American English -- the Southern woman who recorded it having been instructed to purge her speech of any cornpone connotations. It can match just about any Northern city in the splendor of its high-rises or the poverty of those who are sometimes spoken of as living "in the shadow of the buildings." The white residents of most of its neighborhoods have fled to suburban counties, where they prefer traffic jams to participation in an underground transportation system that could bring black people out their way. When all is said and done, Atlanta's economy still...
...Atlanta Now." It emphasizes the contemporary partly because a remarkable number of visitors, presumably oblivious to the century of hustling that has gone into transforming Atlanta into a modern national city, persist in envisioning it as it existed in Margaret Mitchell's antebellum fantasies: they stand in the shadow of Atlanta's great office towers and ask to see Tara. "Look at Atlanta Now" may be replaced in time, but there are no obvious candidates. "The Business of America is Business" has, of course, already been used...
...name all the people who worked in the Reagan Administration and were indicted or left office under a cloud of suspicion? The list contains more shady characters than a shadow boxing tournament. Michael Deaver. Lyn Nofziger. James Watt (remember him?). Oliver North. John Poindexter. Rita Lavelle...
...success has now given him a happier memory of Making Love, but in 1986, when he talked to the Washington Post, Hamlin was still bitter about the shadow it had cast over his life. "A guy can play an ax murderer and still be considered sexy and still get another role as a leading man," he said then. "But if you play a homosexual, suddenly you're not in contention anymore for the ax murderers...
...passion to create a rose garden. I had a vision of something sheltered and beautiful and serene. I spent several years planting and nourishing these wonderfully named creatures -- Etoile de Hollande, Mister Lincoln, Duchesse de Brabant, Chrysler Imperial, Peace -- in a secluded spot among the oak trees that shadow the southern side of my house. I worked, I weeded, I watered, I fertilized, I pruned, I sprayed, I decaterpillarized, and I fondly admired what I had created (God and I). In 1971 I even wrote a little book, The Rose Garden. But to anyone who asks me now about...