Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every few months, Artie and Annie switch on the TV news and view old photographs of themselves, courtesy of the FBI. But if the Popes watched sitcoms instead of CNN, they'd see themselves there too: warm and puddly on The Wonder Years, starched and smarmy on Family Ties. Like The Wonder Years, Running on Empty is haunted by wraiths of the '60s. Like Family Ties' Alex Keaton, Danny is a decent kid with dreams that trouble his ex-rad mom and dad: Alex plans to be a yuppie Ivan Boesky; Danny wants to study piano at Juilliard. And like...
...looks back not in anger but in wonder at how fate has its way with a man. "There is no doubt -- the doctors have no doubt -- that had I remained in ! the race, I'd be dead," he says. A headache, which he thought was a pinched nerve, came during what would have been his peak campaigning time in Iowa. Had he still been running, he says, he would have toughed...
...foreign tourists, diplomats and even the locals long ago discovered, it is tricky to find one's way around the Soviet Union. No wonder. In a startling admission last week, a sheepish-sounding Soviet official said the Kremlin has deliberately falsified virtually all maps of the country for the past 50 years on the orders of the secret police. Chief Soviet Cartographer Viktor Yashchenko told the newspaper Izvestia, "Roads and rivers were moved. City districts were tilted. Streets and houses were incorrectly indicated...
...years of active life, from 1947 to 1986, Folkways Records was a crazy quilt of Americana, a general store with a deep inventory of oddity, inspiration and wonder. The records sounded as if they had been made out in a field, as indeed they sometimes were. All done up in a sturdy cardboard sleeve, they even felt different. But in the midst of all this homespun, Folkways achieved what other companies bring off by accident: it got history on record...
...certainly suggests that Bush does not have much respect for the office of vice presidency, a position he has held now for eight years, by selecting some one who has clearly not proven himself qualified to be the proverbial "heartbeat away" from the presidency. And it makes you wonder when Bush ignores the pleadings of seasoned political pros like James Baker and follows the advice of his media advisers that Quayle, if not the most competent, would make the most telegenic running mate...