Word: things
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Discipline is not what Congress is best at. It prefers being a dispenser of largesse to being a moral policeman or stern taskmaster. Leadership is generally left to the President. Yet George Bush seems to have as much trouble as ever with "the vision thing." Handcuffed by his simplistic "read my lips" campaign rhetoric against a tax increase as well as by his cautious personality, Bush too often appears self-satisfied and reactive...
...underpass on Rakoczi Street in Budapest, someone has scrawled in black crayon DOWN WITH COMMUNISTS. Two years ago, such a sign of opposition would have been quickly removed by Hungary's Communist rulers. Now the graffiti not only survive, but the Communists are saying much the same thing themselves...
Cute is the last thing Woody wants to be. Though he calls jazz his hobby, he pursues it with the utmost seriousness. He practices religiously -- up to two hours a day -- usually in the bedroom of his two-story Fifth Avenue penthouse. But even when he's working on location, he makes time for the horn. "There have been times when I would film all day long and wouldn't get to my hotel room until 10:30 at night," he says. "So I would get into bed and pull the quilt over my head so I wouldn't offend...
...biggest compliment he ever got as a musician, Woody says, was when he was jamming in New Orleans and local people told him how "indigenous" his sound was. Jazz clarinetist Kenny Davern agrees: "He has sought to get that New Orleans plaintive sound, and he has really captured the thing...
...tiny town of Tuscarora (permanent pop. 12). Julie Parks, wife of the local potter, fears that the mine is getting ready to swallow the town. First to disappear was the town swimming hole, a water-filled shaft left over from an earlier mining boom. "It's a crazy thing that's going on here," she exclaims. "I'm living in a place that may be gobbled up by a mine...