Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Southern Comfort flowed free. An order was put in for extra-special nice weather. The sweet-dispositioned sorority sisters--the majority of whom are Virginia natives and the epitome of everything good about Southern belles--were jsut extra sweet. The Theta Delta Chi fraternity burned its Homecoming float in the middle of the parade just to keep things lively. And the beer was flowing just as smooth and fast as everything else...
...Sweet dreams, Jerry Remy, see you out west...
Simplicity is a virtue shared by few government regulations. Yet the concept of crash standards for car bumpers has seemed like sweet reason itself. If sheet metal crumples on impact, why not require automakers to build tougher bumpers? That was the thinking behind Congress's directing the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in 1972 to order stronger bumpers on U.S. cars. Now the NHTSA wonders whether its standards are too costly to manufacturers and car owners and is mulling whether to roll them back. This has set consumer and insurance groups to howling while Detroit is cheering...
...many U.S. cities, Partners has helped, directly or indirectly, to encourage this growing spirit of saving and restoring. Not only does the country sometimes seem caught in a sweet haze of nostalgia and playfulness, it also seems to be savoring its history on a small, even cozy scale. In Youngstown, Ohio, for example, in what appears to be one blue-collar community's search for identity, George Segal's life-size bronze of two steelworkers has been installed in a plaza; members of the building-trades union enhanced the artwork by erecting a real furnace as background...
...film, Frank is a well-liked teacher in a Berlin secondary school, a fond son, an amateur film maker and an energetic participant in the city's homosexual night life. His lover Bernd (Bernd Broaderup, who took the same role in Frank's real life) is a sweet-souled stay-at-home who cooks and keeps house and, in moments of stress, plays Susan Alexander to Frank's Citizen Kane. Bernd can't accept that Frank is voracious for sexual experience with any consenting adult male; Frank feels restricted by Bernd's desire...