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...seeing us would know anything true," notes twelve-year-old Ann August. She and her mother Adele represent a history of shoplifted dresses, bad checks and unfurnished apartments. One epochal day, Adele flashily abandons small-town Wisconsin and whirls to Hollywood, aiming to snag a rich husband and make her child a star. At the Pacific's edge, Ann gently nourishes another dream: to outgrow people like her mother, "who start the noise and bang things, who make you feel the worst; they are the ones who get your love." Finally, Adele taunts once too often...
...April. He is more adamant about persistent rumors that Republicans want him to run for Governor or Senator. "I don't give them a chance to breathe between sentences" before saying no, he growls. Meanwhile, he takes a kind of bemused pleasure in the minor crises that bedevil any small-town mayor. "If someone had told me two years ago that I'd be spending time in someone else's garage, deciding if it could be moved three inches to the north," he says ruefully, "I would have said he'd lost...
...Robert Joseph Dole, the small-town Kansan who rose to become Republican leader in the U.S. Senate, is a remarkable survivor not only of war but of politics. Despite losses in two prior bids for national office, he has steadily been rising in the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. ! Yet he still faces formidable obstacles in the 1988 presidential campaign. He has been known as an acerbic Washington insider, a pragmatic, conservative man for all sessions during his 18 years in the Senate. Can such a candidate project a vision of the country's future that will satisfy both...
FIVE YEARS in small-town Idaho taught me two things: 1) underage greasers and rednecks will always be able to buy alcohol, and 2) the highway is where they'll drink it. In light of this, the government's connection of highway funds to raising the drinking age always seemed a little sinister to me. This federal blackmail, I figured, must be a plot to accelerate human roadkills--take away stationary place to drink, then provide more highway space on which to go drinking and driving. With natural selection fading out of vogue, the government must have thought this...
...this for a plot: small-town school comes from nowhere, but because of hard work and heartfelt inspiration it recovers from an early season deficit to win its division, the regional semifinals, and the regional finals. (I will not spoil the ending by letting you know how it does in the State championship.) And, to top it off, the team members learn something about themselves in the process. Pass the apple...