Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trying to explain astrology rather than criticizing it, however, the media has begun to unwittingly spread the President's foolishness rather than combat it. This frightens me far more than the revelation itself, for it is as if noone cares that the leader of the country believed this ridiculous stuff. Nobody asks what this says about the kinds of criteria Reagan is willing to use in his everyday--or even world shaking--decisions. If we begin by accepting astrology as an innocuous eccentricity, we will be more likely to accept a government run on ignorance, and give "equal time...
...years since crack first appeared in the U.S., this cheap, powerful cocaine derivative has virtually shredded what was left of the tattered social fabric of the ghetto. The driving force behind the drug epidemic is not just the highly addictive nature of crack; many young hustlers never touch the stuff. They are drawn by the more enticing lure of fast money. "They can make $1,000 a week dealing," says Blair Miller of the Adolescent Dual Diagnosis Unit in Detroit's Samaritan Health Center. "These kids have no other skills. It's very hard to resist." In some cities...
...those who arrived not merely hungover but still drunk, slapping oxygen tank cones over their faces and trying to burn the alcohol out of their systems, and then going up, remarking later: `I don't advise it, you understand, but it can be done. (Provided you have the right stuff, you miserable pudknocker).'" The Right Stuff...
Wolfe, author of such bestsellers as "The Right Stuff" and "Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers," is considered by many to have created a new style of American journalism that challenges the concept of objectivity in reporting...
...birth. Man of the melting pot with big hands and arms and mind, who crouches and sweeps and roars in political iambic pentameter and some free verse. A man still surprised that he is Governor of New York and talked about for President of the U.S. It is the stuff of song...