Word: trained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...principle that TV journalism must be as free, as challenging and as crusading as its counterparts in print. And he did so, unlike virtually any of his contemporaries, without ever having worked for a newspaper or having been steeped in print's traditions. His career proved that broadcasting could train, and ennoble...
...crossroads, the spot where the Southern crosses the "Dog" (the interchange of the Southern Railway and the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley, also called the Yellow Dog, and now the Illinois Central). It was here, legend has it, that W.C. Handy composed Yellow Dog Blues while waiting for a train...
...When I trade this one, I'm gon' go down get another one. Praise God." In Clarksdale, White got a trim from Barber- Musician Wade Walton, who told the story of catching a fox. "They're very sly. They don't make nice pets. You can't train 'em. I had him under control, though, long as I was lookin' at him. I named him Chicken...
...news is conveyed casually. In one chapter we are gunkholing with all the Vincents in their motorboat, and in the next an indeterminate amount of time has passed, and we learn that Rosie was killed when a train hit her car. It is an effective narrative trick that Minot might have learned from John Irving, who could have got it from Evelyn Waugh. Like them, Minot also knows how to blend the touching and the macabre. Monkeys ends with the Vincents each taking a handful of Rosie's ashes ("rounded and porous, like little ruins...
...equivalent of hitting all six numbers in the California lottery. At Comme des Garcons, a tiny Frenchwoman behind the counter compliments Molly on her Paleolithic do and watches her try on a pair of suede lace-up granny shoes. $49, and out she strides, in her late-for-the-train gait, past two punked-out teens. "That was Molly Ringwald!" one insists. "No, it wasn't," her elder companion sighs. "It was just one of those people dressed up like...