Word: beckoned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They library labyrinth may be difficult to master, and it's easy to lose track of time when dusty pages beckon from all sides. Occasionally, legend goes, an unfortunate lost student is forced to spend a night among the volumes of forgotten lore...
While TV is likely to beckon, Prince insists, "The musical is my art form." Shows will surely be written for her. Until then, shows that were written for Merman, Rosalind Russell and the other great ladies should be brought out of mothballs. One longs to see Prince in Mame, in Gypsy, in Annie Get Your Gun. For her, Guys and Dolls is probably just the first milestone on a voyage of Golden Age rediscovery...
Wilson would also be an appropriate choice if Bush wants to beckon to the political center outside California. Wilson is a solid supporter of a strong U.S. military and reduced government spending. But his approval of abortion and advocacy of limits on oil drilling would appeal to youngish suburbanites, who, for the first time, may be a majority of voters in next year's race. G.O.P. conservatives are not likely to abandon a Bush-Wilson ticket, but there is a political risk: if it won, Wilson would have to leave California in the hands of a Democratic Lieutenant Governor...
...argument in favor of the draft can counter my basic value premise: People precede government, do not owe their lives to it and cannot be forced to cede their very existence at the beckon of the state. When foreign invaders come to America's shores, or if aggression abroad compels American action, I would hope that the call to arms is answered swiftly and positively. But if military service is compelled, then America will have dented its moral armor...
...shopping spree had actually started months earlier. East Germans moved beyond the oranges and bananas, so popular when the Wall first came down, to consumer electronics and cars. Everywhere, new brand names began to beckon: Panasonic, Miele, Zanussi. Magdeburg became Marlboro country. The West German chain Spar opened a supermarket 40 km east of the border and stocked it with Western goods. East Berlin got its Benetton...