Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...folks shut down their rig, and Bradley starts talking. It's the best possible way to experience him. He draws the group in, using the microphone expertly, letting a rich Midwestern gruffness emerge in his voice--it's the political equivalent of a Garrison Keillor radio monologue. "There's justice that this is where the presidency begins," he says, "in a neighborhood, on a front porch, on a summer night." He likes the line so much he repeats it, rhapsodizing about "running for the highest office in the land the same way you run for mayor," and never mind that...
...well-timed flashbacks, we meet Hata as young Lieut. Kurohata, an imperial Japanese army medic whose duties include gynecological examinations of the garrison's Korean comfort women. It's an odious job for a man sensitive enough to fall in love with one of these World War II sex slaves...
...shopping at at 2 a.m. to replace the microwave that just quit on you? Or buy milk at a regular grocery store at 3 a.m. and not get ripped off by a convenience store? We are just a normal city with an unusual source of income. CAROLYN GARRISON Las Vegas...
...described Garrison, who started the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator in 1831, as a "wonderful example of a journalistic agitator...
When Mayer began his work on the book in 1989, he found only portraits of Garrison as a fanatic. In the course of his research, though, Mayer found Garrison to be a "much nicer" person, he said...