Word: winterizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major one in the up coming fall presidential campaign, since it has tremendous ramifications on economic growth, foreign policy, and the way the government formulates policy. They point out that the issues of government secrecy and information restriction played a prominent role in the Democratic candidates' debates throughout last winter and will likely become important topics in the fall campaign...
...Columbia public schools. The program's participants discuss heroes in literature, then write profiles of Washington notables whom they admire. This year the ten students who took part in the project picked, among others, a city official, a sports star -- and one U.S. President. After choosing Reagan last winter, Parmelee was astonished when his interview was granted. His article on the President, including pictures by Odyssey Student Photographer Marta Effinger, will appear in Looking for Heroes, the Odyssey Project magazine...
SoHo chic has come to Winter River. Charles and Delia Deetz are hosts of their premiere dinner party in the charming old Connecticut house they have just bought. The Deetzes' teenage daughter Lydia, who dresses like Carolyn Jones in The Addams Family, sulks in the corner. The conversation fizzes, then fizzles; the guests shift uneasily. Time for a little . . . Day-o! Day-ay-ay- o! Daylight come and me wan' go home! What? Delia has risen and, to the astonishment of all, begun singing Harry Belafonte's banana-boat hit of 30 years past. Work all night on a drink...
Director Tim Burton (Pee-Wee's Big Adventure) has some poignant points to make about, well, life: that the dead must teach the living to savor it. Mostly, though, he wants to give good fun, to turn Winter River into West Eastwick, to ransack pop culture for references to everything from Topper to Tiny Alice. And to give Michael Keaton the chance to run productively wild. Keaton's Beetlejuice is a deliciously loathsome creature, whether shouting insults, lunching on insects or, in the film's climactic wedding scene, pulling a ring off a severed, shriveled finger and muttering...
...last, a happy twist. After a 17-year struggle with decrepit equipment, bad management and public disdain, Amtrak has come into its own. Most of the filthy, ever late, steamy-in-summer, frigid-in-winter rattletraps that Amtrak inherited at birth in 1970 have finally been refurbished or retired. Last year for the first time, Amtrak covered its above-rail operating costs. Its 2,400 cars rolled along 24,000 miles of track in 43 states, carrying 21 million passengers, 12% more than the previous year. "You can't get sleeping accommodations for the summer going west," says Chicago Travel...