Word: beane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...string bean, either," another friend of mine said meaningfully. Then they both laughed at that, and one of us cried, "Harsh." Unduly so, because, in a way, that was the cruelest kind of dismissal...
Meanwhile, somewhere up in Vermont, the L.L. Bean wool sweater shift packed up their looms for the winter...
...bureaucracy. Many RTC offices have only just opened and are operating far below capacity. About 2,300 staffers have been hired and trained so far, but the agency will need thousands more, and finding talented employees has been difficult. "They do a lot of clock watching and bean counting," says a Houston real estate agent. "Everybody's so afraid of making a mistake that you can't get an answer. It's a mess...
...Trumps do," explains Zwecker, "aren't in his league financially. The people in his league financially go to bed at 9 p.m., lead a simpler life and don't care if they're in my column." Something of the same is true in the home of the bean and the cod, according to Boston Herald gossipist Norma Nathan, whose column "The Eye" is the paper's best-read feature. "Boston has no celebrities," she says. "The best items are the ones that have big names" -- actors in town to shoot a movie -- "mingling with the people here...
Unlike the Olympian detachment that is the traditional pose of Washington columnists, Safire projects a rumpled persona far closer to Walter Matthau's than Walter Lippmann's. His clothes are L.L. Bean, not Savile Row. Safire retains the unbuttoned style, the street-smart diction and the wry-not enthusiasms of a man who happily spent his formative years as a successful public relations flack in New York City. Where other conservative columnists like George Will and William F. Buckley can be precious and predictable, Safire prides himself on his reporting and contrarian thinking. "A column should not be a chore...