Word: exceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...spotlight, Carter remains an intensely private person. His hobbies are those of a loner-fishing by himself for hours on end in a Georgia pond or a Pennsylvania trout stream, or jogging through the woods of Camp David, to which he and Rosalynn now retreat almost weekly. Except for Charles Kirbo, the Atlanta attorney who is his confidant, and his former Budget Director, Bert Lance, he has few close friends and virtually none in Washington. He came to office running against Washington, the Congress, special interest groups and politics-as-usual; in many respects he is still against them...
Rarely in the past, except in time of war, has foreign policy been the decisive American political issue. But the opinion data now show the social issues waning and worldly well-being ranking up close to pocketbook economics...
...conditioning bills during last July's heat wave. Teasdale, a former state prosecutor who graduated from Benedictine College in Atchison, Kans., acidly contrasts his country-boy background with that of the wealthy, Princeton-educated Bond. Says Teasdale: "He governed like a millionaire. He was not seen in Missouri except in the country clubs. There's nothing wrong with that-I used to caddy." Teasdale, who is running behind Bond in the latest polls, is outspending his rival by $2 million to $1.6 million...
Around the third mile, however, the race split and except for Logan the Harvard runners began to drop back never to fully recover from the early strain. Still, Harvard runners Murphy and Felix Rippy made great efforts in the last stages of the race...
...change began with The Painted Word in 1975, Wolfe's broadside against modern art--virtually all modern art--because it existed, he said, solely to perpetuate art criticism. Without criticism, the art was nothing. Except ugly. Wolfe did have a point, but he stretched it to ludicrous proportions to prove himself correct. He crossed over the line to mockery, and the result was more Mencken (bad Mencken, that is) than Mailer (good Mailer...