Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small town girl looking for the big town life...part of the pre-pill, pre-Pepsi generation," she said...
...Dukakis is very exciting. After he won in Wisconsin, he painted the town beige," Carpenter said. "I think Gore is smart, but he's so young...He dreams of a safe ozone layer...He dreams of his own apartment...
Adopting the voice of a resident of a dingy town that Gorbachev supposedly had visited, Zadornov informs the Soviet leader how the place had been hastily spruced up by Communist officials before his arrival: "In those three days they managed to do more for our city than they had during all the years of Soviet power...
...Manufacturers of major appliances, beware! Purveyors of pots and pans, pay heed! Home cooking may be on the verge of obsolescence. Long the gleaming altar of the household, the great American kitchen could soon resemble a deserted mining town in Colorado. Any minute now, the tumbleweed may roll...
...perhaps there is cause for hope. Many people who buy take-out food on workdays take to the stove on special occasions. "I cook for out-of-town friends or when my boyfriend comes over," says Gerri Brownstein, 25, a New York advertising-sales representative. Brownstein may be remembering an observation made by Thomas Wolfe. "There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves," he wrote in The Web and the Rock. Somehow, the act of reheating dinner seems a lot less appealing...