Word: vet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Martin Scorsese begun on The Last Waltz concert film. He worked on music for Raging Bull, The Color of Money and The King of Comedy, for which he wrote his first song in five years. Called Between Trains, it was a spooky, heart-torn memorial for a Viet Nam vet, a friend who died too soon, and it was also a reminder of how badly Robertson was missed. No one else wrote songs like that...
...network-news producers can hardly trim their political coverage to the public's comfort level. If the press has greater influence on election campaigns, one reason is that political parties have less clout. When smoke from cigars rather than joints polluted the political ethos, party bosses tended to vet candidates at an early stage. Executive Editor Max Frankel of the New York Times argued at a Barnard College seminar that "there is an overwhelming interest in who these characters are who are nominating themselves and coming at us so fast. The press and television are playing the filtering role that...
...only have recalled the comic-relief point of the 1984 presidential campaign when Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan quibbled over which side of the ballot the Boss was on. (Springsteen, to his credit, refused to comment). And when the message of the title song got jumbled from vehement Vietnam-vet outrage to raucous jingoism, it was clear that enough was enough...
...house, overhaul VW engines in his living room, keep bees for honey and make his own bullets out of wheel weights. He grew up in Rutherford, N.J., disliking cities and laying a 75-trap line for muskrats down through what is now the Meadowlands. A wounded Korean War vet, he collects $333 a month veteran's compensation, and that, along with $1,200 he and Nora make each year selling their crafts, is enough to buy the various items -- gas, Postum, margarine -- that they can't grow in their garden, hunt, sew, fish for, trade for or find...
...twice-wounded war vet complains that service to his country counts for nothing when he seeks an apartment for his young family. An amputee's brother claims that the wounded man's benefits were inexplicably downgraded. A construction worker says that when his son was killed in action, a newspaper refused him an obituary. Asks the father: "What are we ashamed...