Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush and his advisers, not a few of whom hail from California, see a very different state: one peopled by wealthy retirees, Yuppie venture capitalists and tax-hating suburbanites, as well as socially conservative farmers and truck drivers. Their vision, like that of Dukakis, leaves out a good deal, but it probably describes more of what the state is all about. Which is why California's 47 electoral votes as of now are widely regarded as being Bush's to lose...
Clever fellow, our fricasseed Freddy. Now he stalks the dreams of his posse's teenage children. A vision of loathsomeness with his moldy black felt hat, scalded face, red-and-green-striped sweater and right-hand glove with steel "finger-knives," he lures each sleeping adolescent to a convenient boiler room (every building in town has one) or into their grungiest fears. And if they don't wake up in time, he executes them. Kind of harrowing, the number of Elm Street kids who die in their sleep. As one boy says, "It's not exactly a safe place...
...unrest that ranged from the Soviet Union's restless Baltic republics to Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. The immediate provocation for most of the popular outbursts was worsening economic deprivation. But on a deeper level, frustrated East Europeans were prodded into action by Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's tantalizing vision of a reformed and freer model of Communism. The protests also underscored a generational shift to younger activists, whose hopes and experiences differ markedly from those of their elders...
...uncannily intimate chronicler of their workaday / lives away from the altar: their immersions in church politics and fund raising, their intramural feuds and poker-table cronyism, their struggles with vinegary housekeepers, booze and loneliness. Not that Powers by any means fell into the cozy category of "Catholic writer"; his vision, though compassionate, was too unsparing for that. Still, a Powers book without a priest would be like -- well, a John Cheever book without a commuter...
Folkways, subtitled A Vision Shared and released this week by Columbia, matches some of the best contemporary talent, Dylan to Springsteen to Willie * Nelson, with songs by Folkways' two most formidable artists: Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie. Combinations like that have more than just commercial validity; they have a musical vigor that goes beyond curiosity value. At their best, the reworkings of the songs manage to illuminate their authors as well as redefine the performers...