Word: minding
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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What compels her to run and suffer and sacrifice if not to win? "I like running fast," she says. "I like the sensation of feeling fast, feeling strong, and it's a good way to clear my mind...
...course, future plans would change if a pro team drafted Duggan. "It'd take a lot of work, but I wouldn't mind it," John said. Pro teams like to sign players straight from high school, but they do draft college players. When asked if he would give the pros a shot, Duggan replied, "Oh, hell yes, tomorrow...
...complaint. There is something quite special going on here. The city is not solely an object of scorn for being clumsy and cold. The very idea of Washington is hated too. And both the idea and the fact of the city have now become so confused in the public mind that expressions of contempt for the place sound as if the city had done the complainer some personal injury: "It is impossible for me to express the depth of feelings I've seen around this country about Washington," says Columnist Richard Reeves, who worked as a national political reporter...
...most nettlesome amendment that Trudeau has in mind for the constitution is a U.S.-style "Charter of Rights" that would take precedence over any bills of rights enacted by the individual provinces. Among other freedoms, the charter would guarantee minority-language education. In Canada, education is almost entirely a provincial responsibility. The significance of Trudeau's charter is that it would guarantee French-speaking children the right to be educated in their own language in any province where "numbers warrant," a determination that would be made by the courts. Trudeau regards this language-rights provision...
...Elkin characters have sexual problems too. One, for example, must cope with a large female Kamchatkan brown bear, in heat. In The Dick Gib son Show (1971) a druggist tells how knowing the secret medical problems of his women customers gradually unhinged him: "My mind was like the waiting room of a brothel." More often, though, passion is the least Elkin's people have to worry about. Ben Flesh, the hero of The Franchiser (1976), learns in Rapid City, S. Dak., that he has multiple sclerosis. He worries about this and the effect of a current heat wave...