Word: abyss
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...teenager learning how to smoke. An underling calls with the latest intelligence from fieldworkers: "Bush, by a point or two." The news is hardly reassuring, but Atwater keeps talking about a comeback. "One way a candidate, particularly a front runner, gets good," he says, "is to look into the abyss -- and realize that he doesn't like it one little...
Back from the abyss, Bush is again the front runner. -- After New Hampshire, the fractious Democrats may be heading for a bartered nomination. -- He is intelligent and an able manager, but can Dukakis lead with his heart as well as his head? -- Abandoning restraint, the candidates embrace negative ads. -- A TIME poll charts who is most electable. See NATION...
...Poof! Boom! -- Poof! Language disintegrated on impact. When Bush slugged Rather with the line about Rather's once walking off the set of the CBS Evening News, the anchorman looked for an instant like Wile E. Coyote when, gimlet-eyed, he understands he is about to plummet into the abyss...
...rages and moral pretensions. "This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius," sang the cast of Hair, which came to Broadway in April. Janis Joplin expressed one side of the year fairly well: ecstatic and self-destructive simultaneously, wailing to the edges of the universe, flirting with the abyss. Joplin, who died of a heroin overdose in 1970, memorably sang Me and Bobbie McGee, the 1969 Kris Kristofferson song that contained a perfect line of 1968 philosophy, "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose...
...Like mountain climbers on one rope, the world's nations can either climb together to the summit or fall together into the abyss...