Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unusually animated Dan Rather of CBS, it was "gut-check time" and the sweet hour of prayer" for the Republicans. Even before the network formally estimated, at 9:06 p.m. E.S.T., that Democrats could gain 34 House seats (the actual total was 26), Rather summed up, "The message to the President might well be, 'Reverse course...
...would appreciate it if people would call me by my name," said Willie, a sweet vague man and a beautiful athlete. "Nobody should be able to change your name. That's almost like changing your life." Had his been changed so much by the World Series? "I'm still feeling like a ballplayer and a human being, but all this," he said, motioning toward the throng by his locker, "day in and day out, it could kill you." And so, for now, he was pleased it was over. -By Tom Callahan
...meantime, the tea and pastry fasted extra sweet yesterday for those who have suffered with Lowell House football in recent seasons...
Updike's past excesses stemmed from enthusiasm, an ardency toward the world that his major characters share as well. In the famous conclusion of Rabbit Run (1960), the hero races toward life as if it promised victory: "Out of a kind of sweet panic growing lighter and quicker and quieter, he runs. Ah: runs. Runs." Updike's men are lovers of the here and now and not afraid to look foolish while saying so. Piet Hanema in Couples, Harry Angstrom in the three Rabbit novels, Bech, assorted adolescents and husbands in the short stories: all act in childlike...
Although he is now unable to perceive and describe familiar moment in modern life, Joel apparently has perceived his own slide into sweet-sounding fluff, and on The Nylon Curtain he desperately tries to do something about it. In a last-gasp attempt to attain relevance, he sings about Issues: you know, Unemployment, Social Pressure, Viet Nam, and, of course, Sesame Street. Instead of seizing an elevated song-writing status. Joel glaringly reveals his own detachment from the emotions and situations he describes to others...