Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could understand one another. "They rarely made a decision without checking with the other," said a board member of Harvard's Kennedy School. Jackie sheltered them from the garish glare. "I don't want my children to live here anymore," she said in anguish after Bobby's assassination, fearing America's violence. She was also wary of the immense pull of the hyperactive clan and the demons that came with it. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin told Jackie at Caroline's wedding how striking the closeness between her two children was, and Jackie said, "It's the best thing...
Instead, he asked to toast former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, an architect of America's failed war in Vietnam, to illustrate his topic. People would understand the point better if he didn't make it too personal. The important thing was to explain to folks that entering the public arena was an invitation to great sorrow but that it was a noble calling nonetheless. His toast to McNamara is reprinted below...
...Angela's Ashes became a Pulitzer-prizewinning international best seller, younger brother MALACHY, right, got in on the action and wrote his own book, A Monk Swimming, also a best seller. Now Alphie, a third brother who stayed with his mother in Ireland when his elder brothers left for America, has an agent and is shopping his version of events around town, eager to report what few details of the family's hardscrabble upbringing remain undocumented. It may be a crowded McCourt season. Frank's sequel, 'Tis, is one of the most anticipated books of the fall, and Malachy...
...export of one copy per customer "for personal use." Says Arthur Levine, the series' U.S. editor: "It's not an issue I even want to talk about." In the future, though, he'll be taking no chances: the fourth Harry Potter will be released simultaneously in Britain and America next year...
...film team has come to Mount Rose, Minn., to document its annual Sara Rose Cosmetics(R)(c)[TM] Miss Teen Princess America Pageant. And this time it's personal. The local doyen (Kirstie Alley) is ready to kill, really, to ensure that her daughter Becky (Denise Richards) will win over trailer-park cutie Amber Atkins (Kirsten Dunst). Got all the movie references? Here is a mockumentary (Waiting for Guffman, The Blair Witch Project) about a high school contest (Smile, Election) set among the funny-talking rubes of rural Minnesota (Fargo or every third episode of Mystery Science Theater...