Word: toure
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...next stop on Turbina's tour is Newton North High School, and then she is off to Queens College in New York to meet with students and to continue reading her poetry. If she could add one more stop to her busy agenda, she said she'd "Go to Disneyworld in Florida because every child and every adult dreams about going there...
After visiting classes, Turbina read portions of her poetry to a gathering of students. The students then had the opportunity to ask questions. They learned, among other things, that Turbina likes hamburgers and math. After her day at school, Turbina was taken on a tour of Harvard Square...
...invitation, he seems determined not to be drawn into a weeklong series of White House photo opportunities. The Washington summit will occupy three days -- Dec. 7, 8 and 9 -- and is designed to be a no-frills, hardworking session confined to the capital rather than the far-ranging tour of the U.S. that Reagan had envisioned. That could have been a propaganda disaster for Gorbachev: night after night Soviet television viewers would have been treated to the sight of their leader amid capitalist luxury that sharply contrasted with their own dreary surroundings. Moreover, with no agreement on Star Wars, says...
...quickly became the main attraction of the newspaper's Sunday magazine supplement. His timing, like his trademark white suit, was impeccable and dramatic. After two-stepping through the Eisenhower era, America was ready to rock 'n' roll. Wolfe covered the arrival of the Beatles for their first U.S. tour and caught the moment with a description of hysterical fans throbbing like alien protoplasm against the plate glass of the airport waiting room. The story stretched conventional journalistic license, but few readers could deny that this brightly tailored, soft-spoken Virginian was up to something...
...characters. This technique is what makes Wolfe's journalism so vital and gives him authority as a novelist. This, and his ability to handle an imaginative and intricate plot that welds his descriptions of dinner parties, restaurant games, Wall Street trading and courthouse chaos into more than a tour de force. Even at more than 600 pages, Bonfire moves with a swift comic logic. It has become a critical cliche to say that a book is hard to put down. Those who think that they can casually dip into this one, fuhgedaboudit...