Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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To bathers driven from the surf by the floating filth, it was as if something precious -- their beach, their ocean -- had been wantonly destroyed, like a mindless graffito defacing a Da Vinci painting. Susan Guglielmo, a New York City housewife who had taken her two toddlers to Robert Moses State...
The heat was thick outside Atlanta's Omni Coliseum, but the nostalgia inside was even thicker. John F. Kennedy Jr. stirred memories of Camelot as he introduced Uncle Ted on Tuesday night. Walter Cronkite and Eric Sevareid, those old TV warriors, were back in the CBS anchor booth. And network...
A book on 13th century French brothels might not sound like something you'd include on your summer reading list. Everyone's studied European history enough to know that the Catholic Church of the Middle Ages dictated everything from how to kiss to when it was appropriate to have a...
Still, ya gotta give credit to a joint that, in a part of the country where they think you're supposed to slice hot dog rolls through the top, slices them the right way, through the side. Eating at Chicago Frank's is like being transported to what poet Carl...
Secretary of Agriculture Richard Lyng asserted that the proposed legislation would be "expensive, but something we can afford." The cost would in fact be offset by savings in the $17.7 billion farm-subsidies program already approved in the 1988 budget. As the drought tightens supplies and pushes up commodity prices...