Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cochran, 46, personifies the changing face of the Deep South. A boosterish supporter of Reaganomics, Cochran is less conservative on civil rights and funding for public education. His easygoing geniality, moreover, has an appeal that extends far beyond his white, urban, upwardly mobile core constituency. Even Democratic Challenger William Winter concedes, "There is no way I would win a popularity contest with Thad Cochran...
...admission seems strangely humble coming from Winter, a popular and respected former Governor. A low-key but courageous progressive on racial issues, Winter, 61, became a populist hero by pushing through a sweeping 1982 education reform and tax bill that, among other things, makes it mandatory beginning in 1986 for local school districts to offer kindergarten classes. After completing one term as Governor and being barred by law from succeeding himself, Winter was the obvious choice to assert the Democratic Party's claim to pre-eminence in the progressive New South...
...Winter managed to dither away his political strength. First, after his supporters won a bitter struggle to have him appointed chancellor of the University of Mississippi ("Ole Miss") last December, Winter waffled, accepting the post and then changing his mind a week later. Then he appeared even more irresolute by agonizing for two months over whether to challenge Cochran, making up his mind, some say, only 20 minutes before his announcement. Compared with Cochran's upbeat, exuberant performance, the bespectacled, scholarly former bond attorney's campaign is rather dispirited...
...mainly on human case studies illustrating the brain's functions and dysfunctions. In one episode, Choreographer Agnes DeMille is shown learning to use her body again after a near fatal brain hemorrhage. Another, called "Rhythms and Drives," introduces a Virginia woman who plunges into a crippling depression every winter. For months, she tearfully relates, her time is spent "sleeping, eating, crying." Her disorder is apparently an exaggerated version of the brain's natural response to seasonal variations in sunlight. The treatment: placing her for two hours each day in front of a bank of fluorescent lights, which fool...
...winter of 1976, a telegram arrived for Graham Greene in Antibes. Would he come to Panama as the guest of its leader, Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera? "I thought of it as only a rather comic adventure," recalls Greene, "inspired by an invitation from a complete stranger." But the comedy was to pass through surrealism to tragedy, and the stranger was to become an intimate...