Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entreaties. The gray madonna and her smudges of children hover outside the church, despair incarnate. The glib hustler in designer jeans glides down the movie line. The kids with the grimy windshield rags orbit the intersection. The old man with no eyes sits on the steam grates in winter in a wet cloud of pain. The obsequious panhandler waits outside the automated-teller machines, where wallets are full and walls are transparent. Somehow, always never seemed so often...
...most ruthless primal father," says Craven. "The adult who wants to slash down the next generation." No keys to the car, Son. And no clean beaches, no safe streets, no safe sex, no noble politicians. Just a zillion-dollar debt for you to pay, and a nuclear winter that lasts forever. Adults ruined the world and created Freddy. Only kids can save it and destroy...
...traditional labor call for support, the fervor that swept the nation in 1980 was missing. Said a young doctor in Gdansk: "People don't believe these strikes can change much -- in fact, they think they will mainly help make things worse. There will be no coal for winter, no this, no that...
...hard to find. The frame must bear the original manufacturer's number if it is to be considered vintage. Boat brokers and their scouts comb through the backwoods of Michigan, New England, Canada and even Scandinavia in search of suitable craft. The cold freshwater lakes and the long, dry winter-storage seasons in those areas make them prime hunting grounds for well-preserved hulls...
...imagine what it was like to be a college senior in early 1969," says Jack Wheeler, 43, a Viet Nam veteran and chairman of Washington's Center for the Study of the Viet Nam Generation. "Winter, ice and a dreadful uncertainty gnawing at you." At that time, less than a year after the Tet offensive, Americans were shocked by the stories and televised images of an increasingly bloody and, to many, pointless war in Southeast Asia. In university dorms and dining halls around the country, students endlessly discussed their overarching obsession: the draft and how to avoid it. "The stress...