Word: woodstock
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...proportion, the last in a long line of 20th century hot-air generators. Newspapers and magazines have already struck up regular millennium sections; special issues are in the works, as are numerous book and TV specials--if you loved the pack hunt for meaning in the 25th anniversary of Woodstock or the death of Jackie O., you'll love 2000. Merchandisers are horning in too: La-Z-Boy offers Millennia office chairs (the "tie-in," a La-Z-Boy executive offers, is that the chairs have "a very contemporary look"), while Elizabeth Arden has its Millenium skin-care products...
...Chambers (Random House; 638 pages; $35). Tanenhaus' account, essentially sympathetic, is patient, admirably balanced and fascinating in its rich detail. On the great litmus question of postwar politics--which of them was telling the truth?--Tanenhaus is clear. Walking again through all the familiar elements of the case (the Woodstock typewriter, the Bokhara rug, the prothonotary warbler, the famous Pumpkin Papers), Tanenhaus shows, if anyone still doubts it, that Alger Hiss was lying...
...years, I cannot recall one instance in which this spy foolishness has proved to be of measurable benefit to the U.S. Want to seriously cut the budget? Then abolish the agency. The world's free press is far more accurate and timely. DICK CATLIN Woodstock, Vermont...
...parents' warnings did make a difference. Parents who talked about their flower-child days and getting wasted at Woodstock seemed to give tacit consent by fondly relating their experiences. They didn't want to be hypocrites, and their children tended to go further because they felt no guilt. They were the kids who took bong hits instead of seminars...
...Hailed by Republicans as a way to force families to care for their dependents, the cuts are really aimed at women caring for children. This pro-family ideology is a misogynistic, presidentially approved method of forcing economic dependency on women while reinforcing the economic independence of men. DAVID BINNS Woodstock, Canada...