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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...points out that he has been given her much smaller crutches by mistake. Elsewhere, life imitates sitcoms. The Accidental Tourist reluctantly takes a business trip to Paris. Muriel, uninvited, tags along; a tense Macon wrenches his back. When Sarah unexpectedly shows up to nurse him, he is forced to utter the book's bottom line: "This is not the way it looks...
...toward ending the arms race, and proceed seriously toward disarmament. I do believe it is in the best interests of the Soviet Union and the U.S. After all, there have been countless attempts in the past to bring us to our knees, to bring us to the point of utter exhaustion. But all such attempts have been in the past, and will be in the future, doomed to utter failure. We have never accused the U.S. of being an "evil empire." We understand what the U.S. is, what the American people are, and the role they are playing and will...
...report concluded that the probability was very low, but that in the worst case, when the maximum amount of lethal chemical substance was present and employees exercised utter negligence in the treatment of the material, as many as 40 people in the vicinity of the plant could be killed...
...newest Americans: old because they have lived in the U.S. since the time the nation was just an idea; new because it has been only in the past 20 years that they have become truly enfranchised citizens. Says Economist Thomas Sowell: "The race as a whole has moved from utter destitution -- in money, knowledge and rights -- to a place alongside other groups emerging in the great struggles of life. None have had to come from so far back to join their fellow Americans...
...American author of the last 25 years Like Miguel Angel Asturials and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Children Allende presents such oddities as a child who can see the future, a beautiful woman with almost transparent skin and green hair and a dog larger than a horse with utter disregard for any possible disbelief. Like the best of Marquez, The House of The Sports retains the innocence. Which comes from writing about the bizarre as if it were commonplace and presenting magic as an integral part of life...