Word: solids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...between there's a solid working class, and a few families like the Klingensmiths. "We learned to think critically, we were trained to read a lot: we didn't watch TV" And in a state described on its "Welcome to West Virginia" border signs as "The Closest P'ace to Heaven," a state where a town of 3000 might boast a dozen churches. Klingensmith learned about God, in the backyard with the moss and the grass, and in a relatively liberal Methodist congregation...
Donovan is not the kind of crony to Reagan that Lance was to Carter. Indeed, the President was on solid ground in not criticizing the Secretary while Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman was still investigating Donovan's conduct as a vice president for labor relations of New Jersey's Schiavone Construction Co. Nonetheless, Reagan need not have publicly downgraded the increasing seriousness of the Donovan situation...
...across small bridges. Residents know the best way to Stanley is to proceed south, over the Sussex Mountains (about 900 ft. high), and the British forces have shown they know it too. The road is boggy on the tops of the hills, but once over, the clay track is solid. Then down toward Darwin and to the larger Goose Green, which in normal times consists of some 103,000 sheep and 100 people...
...complex thug who could never make up his mind whether he wanted to be a fearsome breaker of the peace, like his neighbor to the north, or a geopolitical showman, the P.T. Barnum of international politics. Judging from Denis Mack Smith's study, by far the more solid and persuasive of these two new biographies, the Duce (chief) was a bit of both...
...with an imitation Star Wars. The special effects, for example, are modest and traditional, mostly models bopping around star fields. There is an easy sureness about Nicholas Meyer's direction (the sometime novelist also did a good job on Time After Time three years ago): he trusts his solid material. So instead of the strain that was almost palpable in Enterprise's first voyage into the alien territory of theaters, there is something comfortable, even old-shoeish, about the new film, a sense, appropriate to its theme of coming to terms with middle age, that all aboard...