Word: sourfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book isn't very imaginative, and it seems like more of an excuse to get in some old-fashioned, good-selling violence than anything else. Even after the violence begins to sour, there is still one interesting thing in the book. It is the question of how to fight terrorists...
...space shuttle, he would not appropriate "another cent" to the agency. When NASA obligingly ticketed him for a trip, critics accused Garn of using his political clout to hitch a costly joyride--the ultimate congressional junket. But the Utah Republican dismissed such carping as "sour grapes." After undergoing four months of intensive training to prove that he had the right stuff, Garn blasted off aboard the 16th U.S. shuttle mission last Friday...
...saying so, each visitor is aware that his or her farm could go next. Third- generation farmers, the Steffes had acquired 280 acres by 1966, raising livestock and planting a variety of crops. In the booming 1970s they added another 180 acres and rented 530 more. Farming began to sour for them in 1979, just as tragedy struck. They lost two sons, 16 and 20, to cancer. Their sons' medical costs came on top of farming setbacks. Still, creditors were patient as the family fell $100,000 in debt. Recalls Steffes: "The people in town really trusted me. The feed...
PLAYING: Remember last year's Grateful Dead-turned sour-turned R.E.M. concert? It was one of the first appearances at Harvard by a big name band, and council members were reported to be working last term to swing the Temptations for a concert this spring. Whether they'll come through is still unclea, but the council's social committee has acted to unsure enlivining student life in at least some fashion this semester. About $4000, half the social slice of the government's $60,000 pie, has been set aside to distribute to House committees for sponsoring campus wide House...
...harrowing wonder of energy. No other young actor so cunningly combines the mannerist danger of the Brando-De Niro school with the articulate assurance of a stand-up comic. Hutton is just as fine in a role that demands--and gets --caged heat, the taste of a soul gone sour, sanctity imploding into rage. He and Penn are the only compelling reasons to see a film that is oddly engrossing in spite of itself...