Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...martial, however. A Sally Field movie due out this week, Places in the Heart, is a highly sentimental, richly American story: a Texas widow during the Depression takes up cotton farming to keep her homestead and family together. Blue Highways, the bestselling account of a 13,000-mile trip down back roads, made a reassuring case that the American fabric still looks like a charming country quilt. American architecture has been pursuing a rather whimsical rediscovery of its home-grown past: flimsy roadside commercial buildings are regarded as significant folk design, for instance, and turn-of-the-century housing styles...
East German Communist Party Boss. Erich Honecker may have canceled his trip to West Germany, but last week he made it to Addis Ababa, where the flag flying over Revolution Square had more comforting look: red and emblazoned with the hammer and sickle. Honecker was in the Ethiopian capital with Soviet Politburo Member Grigory Romanov at a three-hour parade to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the military coup that overthrew former Emperor Haile Selassie. Dominating the scene was a towering portrait of Ethiopian Leader Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam, 43, the U.S.-trained soldier who had just been chosen...
Graham, 65, had been pointing for this evangelical undertaking since 1959, when he made his first trip to the U.S.S.R. During a quick visit to Moscow's huge Lenin Stadium, he recalls, "I bowed my head and prayed that God would one day open the door and let me preach the Gospel in Russia." In more recent years he has preached in Hungary, Poland, East Germany and Czechoslovakia, but always with a Soviet mission in mind. Then in 1982 he attended a Moscow peace conference and stirred one of the biggest flaps of lis career. He made remarks...
...NOTEBOOK: This is the first Harvard trip to Columbia in three years...Next year's game will also be played in New York...Restic has taken five sophomore running backs to New York because of the recent rash of injuries to the offensive backfield...
...remembered my trip to the ice cream store, sweet victory. They put on a front there, too. "Harvard, Columbia? They're both wusses. Oh. You're from Harvard? They are very intellectual schools," said Lorie, as she scooped me a peanut butter and jelly tofutti...