Word: young
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activist Mondale model of a Vice President far more than the invisible-man version perfected by Bush. The difference is the heart of Quayle's salvation strategy. He staggered through the election branded an overprivileged airhead. As candidates or incumbents, Vice Presidents often attract some derision. For the young golf addict, it was a nearly lethal dose. "I came to the office adding a bit of luster to that ridicule," he muses. Allies advised him to go underground, to avoid risks. But with escalating speculation that Bush would dump him in 1992, Quayle and his advisers decided that inactivity...
While it is possible that on his deathbed young George beseeched coach Knute Rockne to win one someday for the Gipper, it would have been more in character for Gipp to want to get $500 down on the streptococci. Myths, legends and lies are the beams and girders of games, but isn't it a bit much the way the country has been getting ready to be appalled by Pete Rose? O.K., he's a plunger. Everyone knows gambling pervades sports. It pervades life...
...time when chamber music seems to be enjoying something of a boom, the Kronos following rivals that of a rock band. The quartet gives more than 100 concerts annually, to largely young, near sellout crowds, and all three of its albums (Electra/Nonesuch) have made Billboard's classical charts. In addition, a March released recording of Reich's music, which includes Different Trains, is also on the charts...
...mayor of Detroit, Coleman Young copes mainly with tedious municipal problems. But last January the monotony was interrupted: a paternity suit named the 71-year-old Young as father of Joel Loving, 6, born in 1982 to Annivory Calvert, 34. She claimed Young was her exclusive lover from 1981 to 1987. Twice divorced and unmarried, Young handled the allegation deftly. True, he was needled with jokes like the bumper sticker that said HONK IF YOU'RE MAYOR YOUNG'S SON. Still, after three blood tests indicated paternity, Young vowed to live up to his responsibilities. So the story faded...
Detroit police admit investigating Calvert, but only about an alleged insurance scheme that Thomas tipped them to. Mayor Young says he knows nothing whatsoever about any police prying into Calvert's personal affairs...