Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once Jan. 3 came and went, both parties could be accused of rejecting what Bush called "the final step for peace" because of a trifling squabble over dates. Anxious not to be seen as the side that blinked, the Bush Administration offered what was supposed to look like a totally new idea: a Baker-Aziz meeting in Europe...
...resolution co-sponsored by fellow Democrat Brock Adams of Washington that would prohibit Bush from attacking Iraqi forces without "explicit authorization" from Congress. Mitchell looked surprised and angry. Though for weeks he had been asserting in public that only Congress has the constitutional power to declare war, he was anxious to avoid a debate before the Jan. 9 meeting between Baker and Aziz in Geneva. "This is the place," he replied to Harkin, then added, "I don't think it's the time." But among the rank and file, the attitude was "If not now, when...
...country. What he says counts because everyone else is arguing not just with him but with one another. If Shevardnadze's warning comes true and Gorbachev gives way to -- or becomes -- a neo-Stalinist, that personality too must be the focus of U.S. policy and the outside world's anxious attention...
...important way, things are the same. "Soldiers waiting for action are usually alike: anxious, annoyed, bored," recalls Tokyo bureau chief Barry Hillenbrand, who spent two years in Vietnam and later reported on the war between Iran and Iraq. Geographically, though, the two places are worlds apart. Senior correspondent James Wilde observed combat scenes for six years in Vietnam, "spending hours floundering around in swamps, up to the waist in water." Says Wilde, who is based in Rome: "Give me the desert anytime." The jungle terrain and guerrilla nature of the war in Southeast Asia made for unconventional fighting, recalls correspondent...
...stretches from Kaspar Hauser to Being There's Chauncey Gardiner to E.T. -- and to the heroes of Burton's Beetlejuice and Pee-wee's Big Adventure. When the Avon lady brings him into her spectacularly bland neighborhood, she unawares sets his creativity on a collision course with her friends' anxious conformity. At first the housewives accept Edward's handicap as a gift. His metal shears can dice vegetables in a trice, turn a drab hairdo into a chic coiffure and sculpt front-yard bushes into exotic topiary: ballerinas, pterodactyls, even a group portrait of the all-suburban family...