Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...apartments and day care centers for the poor. Chicago, Minneapolis and New York City are teeming with construction sites. Orlando's international airport will add a new $3 million terminal; Louisiana will open a $700 million offshore oil port. So go the examples, which are plentiful. Pretty heady stuff for a nation that some contend has lost its self-assurance...
...expectancy and muted exultation. No hats in the air and no drinks all around as in the old days of A-O.K. lift-offs and jubilant splashdowns. Still, the spirit of the NASA people was lifted by a palpable shot of what Kleinknecht calls "the Apollo spirit, the stuff that made Apollo work." Says he: "I think we've got it going again...
That may be the best thing about it. That may be the best thing about the '80s as well. Clarity is rarely the stuff of dreams, but there is something oddly inspiring about knowing one's frailties; about recognizing who one is and where one came from; about acknowledging that your tiles can fall off, that you cost too much, and that you travel with mixed motives. No other country in the world at this time could have produced the space shuttle, and there is short-term pride to be taken in that. But pride must survive...
THIS IS the stuff of very funny movies but there is something very sad about First Family. After an hour and a half of inanities, you leave the theater feeling like you had been to what was billed as the greatest Washington dinner party of the year--catered by the finest restaurant, with the most interesting and "in" people in attendance--and the hostess' five-year-old son threw up on the Pakistani ambassador and the English wolfhound did likewise on the wife of the Secretary of Defense...
...never talked to Herbie about football before, but when he went two-for-two the next day, and two-for-two the day after, I figured maybe the guy knew his stuff. So yesterday, I called him up to get his picks for this weekend, thinking if he goes two-for-two again we'll get him on TV. Here's what he said: ACTION HERBIE'S PICKS: Dallas at Philly. Apparently, Dallas is the one NFC team Herbie was referring to. "That Danny White, he's got an arm on him, all right. And the Cowboy defense is there...