Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bryant Pond is one of those tiny Maine towns that come upon the traveler as suddenly as a streak of summer lightning. There you are, tooling north on Route 26, dazzled by an occasional stand of white birch, sniffing the pinelike incense, just about convinced that this is God's country the way the glaciers carved it out 12,000 years ago. Then the road descends and a white Baptist church materializes on the left, as if designed for Our Town. At the bottom...
...When it came to the test, a bipartisan majority bit the bullet," said an exultant Ronald Reagan a few minutes after the votes were counted. Continuing his remarkable streak of legislative victories, the President had deftly corralled enough Congressmen of both parties into approving a contradictory but much needed correction to his economic policies. In retrospect, the 226-to-207 victory was hardly surprising: the President has made such miracles seem commonplace. What was out of the ordinary was the nature of the triumph. Reagan, who had come to Washington preaching a gos pel of tax cuts, had wrested from...
...Manhattan architect careering toward a nervous breakdown. He loves his actress wife (Gena Rowlands) but is tired of her. He loves his 14-year-old daughter (a lovely duckling named Molly Ringwald) without quite understanding his paternal possessiveness of her. His rage expresses itself in sudden lightning storms that streak the Manhattan skies and act as the mysterious percussion to the mad music inside his head. Off he goes to Greece, where he finds an earthbound Ariel (the sweetly sensible Susan Sarandon), and finally to his dream isle, where he gets to play semibenevolent despot over his Miranda, his Ariel...
...former life as a bank robber is now his protégé, and there is a pretty girl he has rescued from streetwalking; both must be shown how to live honorably. His aging self and reputation must also be refurbished; both are under assault from his losing streak and from an enemy who hates sharing the world with a man of Bob's quality. And out there, glimmering, is the casino, with its huge nightly take stashed in a crackable safe. It offers him a victimless crime and a chance to tie up all his life...
...dare not print--nay, even think--what you might exclaim when you hit your first thoroughly rotten academic streak here at Harvard and realize how much you and your loved ones paid for the two books listed above. And for your $11,000 (chuck in another grand for incidentals), you get the two volumes for only 12 months. Skip a renewal payment, and you'll be over at the Coop full time, commanding one of their space-age cash registers or arranging Kleenex sale displays...