Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, maybe not. A couple of weeks ago, I was at a senior bar where, wonder of wonders, there was room to dance. After several of the computerized drum tracks that pass for dance tunes these days, the Village People's 1978 hit "YMCA" erupted over the stereo. And in a burst of 1970s nostalgia, the dance floor exploded with seniors doing the dance we all remembered, forming the letters of the title with our bodies during the chorus...
...lost it four years ago, is what senior bars are all about. Freshperson Week, our proctors told us to eat, drink and see Love Story, for tomorrow we had to start working. Today, we stand in a similar position, poised over the abyss of boundless promise. Is it any wonder we should want so intensely to party so desperately, as we once did? We'll never get to experience such delirious claustrophobia again...
Pope John Paul II signed one once after an outdoor Mass in San Francisco's Candlestick Park. Like Whitey Ford, who writes "Ed Ford" to conserve energy, the Pope went with "JP II." If he knows baseball, he might wonder what ever happened to that era of priceless memories when small boys leaned out over dugout railings and haunted stadium gates. A number of contemporary players, like the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser and Don Mattingly of the Yankees, boycott the cattle calls. "Every kid is looking for a moment or hoping for a word, but no one ever even glances...
...aged aunt to hear her final addled reverie of childhood, the dying woman whisks off a grizzled wig to reveal blond locks, sits bolt upright and brays delightedly at having sneaked in one last prank. At the sight of this transformation, the daughter's attitude shifts from terror to wonder. Moments later, she and the dying woman are jumping on the bed as though it were a trampoline, mingling the old one's romantic memories with the child's geography game in exultant shouts of "Zanzibar! Zanzibar...
...political front, U.S. optimism also seems misplaced. Some experts are worried that the mujahedin leader who has received the lion's share of U.S. support, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, is a fanatic Muslim who might turn out to be Afghanistan's version of the Ayatullah Khomeini. Others wonder whether the mujahedin coalition, linked by hatred of the Najibullah regime, could stay together long enough to form an effective government...