Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Garrison Keillor deftly nailed the repercussions of corporate downsizing [ESSAY, April 22] and validated many of the emotions that people where I work are experiencing post-merger. The nirvanic green world that beckons out there is a place from which many of us unwittingly withdrew years ago. Now Big Business waits quietly in a dark cloak carrying a scythe. It stalks the very elements that made it profitable and yielded it market share--its people who have labored so hard. The parvenues of "new management" will wring out every last drop of dedication from the drones in the name...
...Keillor favors reality, by which he means something other than the corporate world. Sure, the life he describes at the re-engineered Amalgamated Potato stinks, but (news flash, Garrison) bad smells are real. And what does he offer instead? The romantic notion that life in the wild where the caribou roam is better. Well, he also invented a town where all the children are above average. If all those "drones" with salaries "in the mid five digits" he describes flee the corporate world, who will be left to pay Keillor for spinning yarns and reading poetry on public radio...
Children's book writing is becoming the new arrow in the celebrity quiver. This spring brings the debut of several children's authors, including playwright WENDY WASSERSTEIN, radio host Garrison Keillor and New Age guru MARIANNE WILLIAMSON. Jamie Lee Curtis' and TIM BURTON's next books are due out in the fall; and Julie Andrews (pen name: Julie Edwards) and RICKI LAKE both have publishers expecting manuscripts. Why children's books? "I think it's a boomer thing--a group of people recapturing their youth," says Wasserstein, whose book is about a girl's first theater visit. Plus, they...
...workers dare enter for fear of attack. A visit last week to the area revealed rice fields and coffee plantations abandoned to forest. Entire villages have been pounded to ruins. Residents who have not taken to the hills or to camps in Zaire are huddled together in a few garrison towns without food or medicine. "No one understands what is happening here," says Thomas Kabirige, a magistrate visiting his home area for the first time in two years. "It is desolation...
...necessarily think admissions gives us special benefits except that the name of the school turns their head a bit in the beginning," Garrison says of Exeter...