Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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JOHN MC CAIN OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY "Your character is what you are to yourself, not what you pretend to be to yourself or others. We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves from ourselves...I am confident you will find honor in your choices when the hard choices arrive at your door. You need not go to war to find them...
...neglected New Mexico's hottest sport. Truth is, our real UFOs are the ultimate floating objects: hot-air balloons. KATHY SMITH Albuquerque...
What drove Tony was the prospect of creating journalism with all the life and immediacy of great fiction and the additional power of truth. He wanted to show America to itself so vividly as to spur the national conscience. It worked too. Every subject he wrote about remains lodged in the mind through the personification that he found for it, from Linda Fitzpatrick, the suburban girl who became fatally involved with the late-1960s counterculture, to Rachel Twymon, the Job-like Boston-ghetto mother in Common Ground. They may be gone now, but they're still alive in Tony...
...magazine, a great deal of your workday must necessarily be devoted to answering the question, What does the man of the '90s want? The current issues of a number of men's magazines provide a possible answer: puns involving the words ball or balls. THE TRUTH ABOUT YOUR BALLS promises a piece on golf in GQ. DON'T DROP THE BALL says the headline to an article in Men's Health urging early detection of testicular cancer. Maxim, a rude import from Britain that has just published its premiere issue in America, features a photograph of author Tom Clancy standing...
...have never drawn from a stuffed specimen," Audubon claimed in 1828. "Nature must be seen first alive." Like nearly everything else he said about himself, this statement was, at best, a half-truth. Audubon killed thousands of birds; before photography and high-resolution binoculars, that was the only possible way to render accurate images of them. But before Audubon shot them, he watched his subjects intensively, noting how they moved and behaved, the plants or habitats they preferred. When he had his bird in hand, he used wires to arrange the specimen in a characteristic pose...