Word: trail
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...campaign trail, Vice President George Bush's response to the housing crisis has been to ignore it. In answer to a question at the first presidential debate, Bush called for full funding of the McKinney Act and involvement of private benevolent organizations -- the "1,000 points of light" -- in communities that aid the homeless. Michael Dukakis has endorsed the recommendations of the National Housing Task Force and is committed to spending $3 billion of federal money to build homes, mostly for low-income people...
Anything for Billy does for the gunfighter what Lonesome Dove did for the trail-driving cowboy: re-creates a brief but indelible period as horse-opera bouffe. But the Billy book does something more. Through Ben Sippy, dime novelist and later a scenarist for western movies, McMurtry confects a folklore about the making of folklore. By adding his special glow to long- forgotten pulp fiction and the advent of a machine that projects our fantasies, he answers the fundamental question, Why would a nation that strongly believed in its manifest destiny enshrine in its legends a nihilistic punk...
...Democratic governor and the Republican vice president dueled from a distance on the campaign trail before sheathing their political swords and dining together at the annual, nonpartisan Alfred E. Smith charity dinner in Manhattan, sponsored by the Roman Catholic archdiocese of New York...
Hyland founded LPS after doing a series of photographs up the New England coast on "the lighthouse trail." Realizing the condition of the lights, and the historic value of the buildings, he decided to devote himself fulltime to their documentation and preservation. The work of LPS is much less hands on than that of the Thacher Island Association, and, however unfair, it is easy to see why the people on the pier might be wary of James W. Hyland III, with his hair parted to the side and his background in film, his publicity campaigns, long-range lobbying and talk...
...that I had some jobs picked out--four restaurants, a temp agency, two hyperactive sounding boutiques at Faneuil Hall and a jewelers--I needed a map. I went to three terminal gift shops, and none had a city map; only postcard foldouts of the Freedom Trail and a glossy New England map extravaganza which was far beyond my means and interests. Eventually, a woman at the car rental desk gave me a Mapa de Boston, written entirely in Portugese, but with most downtown streets clearly marked and cartooned throughout, with yellow financial buildings and red churches. The time had come...