Word: walks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back in 1985, as Phillip J. Barker was chopping down trees to build a lounging shed for his dairy cows, one tree fell the wrong way and broke his neck. Doctors told him he would never walk again. But the gritty little farmer--just over five feet tall--refused to accept that prognosis. Within seven days he regained feeling in his limbs. And after 18 months of rehabilitation he was back at work on his 300-acre dairy farm here, about 40 miles northeast of Durham...
Consider the facts of the situation. You have spent the past semester in the company of your professor and TF. No matter what that annoying kid in your section may believe, they are the only authorities in the course. So naturally, when you walk into your final exam and see a large-eared elfish man in a hot-pink sweater and Poindexter glasses who vaguely resembles your junior high substitute teacher, it's hard to take him seriously...
...year 2000, America was supposed to be on the run-or at least a brisk walk-into healthful physical activity...
Steve Jobs, acting-CEO-for-life of the resurgent Apple Computer, said last week of his new fruit-colored desktops, "We knew we had to name them after things you eat, because you just want to walk up and lick them...
...title, a sly gibe at John Updike, Rabbit at Rest and all the other Rabbits, is worth a smile. Here, McMurtry's Duane Moore, 62, rich, beset by family and bored to a frazzle, flummoxes his Texas town by ditching his pickup truck and walking everywhere. The book is within cat-kicking distance of funny. Real guys don't walk, not in Thalia, Texas. The trouble is that Duane, wambling hero of The Last Picture Show and Texasville, is actually becalmed. He has lost the happy soul's gift of reality avoidance. So too with McMurtry, usually an inspired melodramatist...