Word: armchairs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When it was all over, the questions belonged to everyone, every pundit and prophet and armchair analyst. Did it have to end this way? Did the feds just get restless and vengeful at the crazy people who had killed four of their colleagues? Were the Davidians in fact intending to come out in a matter of days? Above all, did the cult members really set out to burn themselves and their children alive? Or did the tanks knock down their camp lanterns, burst open the propane, accidentally tossing a spark onto the tinder? A mass suicide? A mass homicide...
...cloistered in our tiny office, we often wonder whether anyone out there cares. Then we get the complaints. It's axiomatic that when money or time is being allocated not everybody will be happy, but for a community as small as ours we've got an awful lot of armchair editors...
TIRED AND ILL WITH PROSTATE CANcer, Francois Mitterrand sat silently in a Louis XV armchair at the Elysee Palace, watching election returns. Was it only a dozen years ago that a vigorous Mitterrand, newly elected as France's Socialist President, marched solemnly up the steps of the Pantheon and placed red roses on the tombs of three leftist heroes while the streets of Paris rang with victory celebrations? Now as the results of last week's parliamentary vote flickered across the TV screen, the numbers confirmed what all had suspected: the Socialist era was over in France. Mitterrand's party...
Today's home shopping networks could blossom into video malls stocked with & the latest from Victoria's Secret, Toys "R" Us and the Gap. Armchair shoppers could browse with their remote controls, see video displays of the products that interest them, and charge these items on their credit cards with the press of a button - a convenience that will empower some folks and surely bankrupt others...
...that because the recession went on longer than was anticipated, the short-term deficit is considerably bigger than anyone thought it was six or seven months ago. (Mrs. Clinton enters the room and sits in an armchair next to the President-elect.) The second thing that happened on this deficit is that in the out years -- that is 1997, 1998 and beyond -- it also looks bigger than they originally thought, given the assumptions on health care. Now I think we can fix a lot of that. People know it took 12 years to get into this trough...