Word: wonderments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...albeit with uneven success, is to use the levers of government, along with state money, to goad business into helping achieve liberal goals -- from rebuilding depressed areas to providing health insurance for all workers. Can this liberalism on the cheap work on the federal level? There is reason to wonder, especially since the resources Dukakis proposes to invest seem so paltry compared with his promises. But he does have the virtue of being the first modern Democratic nominee who can talk of plans and programs without prompting voters to check their wallets...
...final mission, John, 45, has miraculously emerged as the anchor of the Yankee pitching staff. My other two survivors are probably in the final months -- or even days -- of their curtain calls. Don Sutton, 43, his blond curls flecked with gray, languishes on the disabled list as the Dodgers wonder what to do with a pitcher who needs a retinue of relievers to get him beyond the sixth inning. And Graig Nettles, 43, once a majestic third baseman, hangs on a major league roster by a thread as an occasional pinch hitter for the Montreal Expos...
What seems to be troubling the people who are concerned about Bubbacide is not a nostalgia for watery greens as a main course or for men wearing sheets; it's that they think there is nothing to replace what used to feel like Georgia. They wonder whether the point of being liberated from the South really was to live in someplace that isn't anywhere at all. Late in the evening, after a few drinks, they are likely to say that Atlanta has no soul. I asked the novelist Pat Conroy, who lives there, why there is no modern novel...
...fried chicken with livers and other giblets, fork-tender country-fried steak, braised pork chops, fried catfish and black-eyed peas. To these are added local esoterica like potlikker, a bracing broth that results from cooking pork with greens and is best accented with a dash of Tabasco. Small wonder that to some this is known as soul food...
...ninth inning of a baseball game is usually no cause for celebration, especially if the home team is losing. But when drops started falling in Kansas City last week as the Royals tried to catch the Chicago White Sox, 23,000 fans let out a rousing cheer. No wonder they were delighted to get wet. Missouri is deep in the heart of drought country: some 80% of its corn crop and more than 60% of its soybeans are in poor-to-very-poor condition. In Chicago the news that scattered showers were sprinkling the blistered Plains and Midwest created...