Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appearances, it was an oldtime Democratic love fest. The party faithful, breaking with recent practice, were actually faithful: they did not split up into bitter factions or call one another names. Presidential hopefuls preened, smiled and whispered sweet nothings into delegates' ears. To top it all off, there was a rousing speech by a Kennedy. "The dawn is near, our hearts are bright," intoned Senator Ted of Massachusetts. "Our cause is right, and our day is coming again...
...senate, which had rejected the amendment four times before, knocked it down once more, 22-16. ERA opponents in the galleries applauded politely; supporters broke into angry chants of "Vote them out!" Said Billie Bobbitt, a Florida spokeswoman for the ERA: "We've learned to smile and be sweet, but we aren't going to play that game no more...
...with useless facts ("Did you know when you sneeze it comes out of your nose at 160 miles per hour?" he inquires of a girl he's trying to impress), a headmaster who encourages a student's underground traffic in exotic pastry because he has an unmanageable sweet tooth, a ten-year-old sister, precociously wise in the ways of the world, who gives Gregory such good advice as he gets on how to conduct his life. There is even a penguin - or rather, some one dressed up in a penguin suit - who in explicably wanders the school...
There are no big meanings here; no big laughs, for that matter, either. Instead, there is a mild, but admirably stubborn singularity. Gregory's Girl does not offer anything as thick as slice life, just slivers of it, cut thin as smoked Scotch salmon. And tasting just as sweet . - By Richard Schickel
Lebanon was always as sweet and cunning and ancient and beautiful as the world. It was literate, rich, fabulous, chic as Atlantis in better days. No land was ever luckier, more cosmopolitan. If you drove in from the east, out of the deserts of Jordan, Iraq or Syria, Lebanon was the coolest, greenest, richest land in the imagination of Allah. You climbed the Lebanon Mountains, and suddenly beheld the Mediterranean. Its deep blue waters played in the eye against the snow on the tops of the mountains. The air was dense with the scent of thyme and cedar...