Word: bedevilment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Could any Republican have defeated the Great Conniver? I think so. A fighter aware of and engaged by the things that bedevil our country, a thinker able to speak with such clarity and simplicity that his words move people to action. That is not what the Republicans had this year in Bob Dole. But considering all he had against him, including himself, the percentage of the vote he won was a kind of triumph, even a kind of tribute to his gritty and stubborn endurance...
...elevation of Alfonse D'Amato and Jim Leach to the chairmanships of the Senate and the House banking committees ensures that Whitewater hearings will bedevil the White House for the next two years. The good news: the exposure of the pathetic, somewhat shady attempts to get rich quick will help convince voters that the President and First Lady are normal Americans...
...guerrilla fighter actually has to govern? That's the question for America as Gingrich amasses his powerful minority, which next week could, possibly, become a narrow majority in the House of Representatives. Even if it does not, a combination of Republicans and conservative Democrats will control Congress and bedevil Bill Clinton. All his political life, Gingrich has been perfecting his ability to disrupt the majority and move the opposition into an increasingly radical position on the right. But now that Gingrich has arrived, what does he want? His record as a builder is shaky at best, and his grand vision...
...place for 32 years -- and Clinton has just tightened? Castro coolly declared that he was ready and willing to talk, seizing the high ground in a game he largely controls. His ability to provoke or stop a flow of refugees almost at will gives him a power to bedevil Washington that he is using with relish. This week American and Cuban officials will resume low- level talks, focused strictly on migration, that were suspended last December. But as for wide-ranging negotiations -- no way, responded Clinton; that would look like capitulation. Yet something had to be done with the balseros...
...author manages, more or less, to stay off the metaphorical sauce for the rest of the book. But other problems bedevil the story, which is the seventh of Burke's mysteries about Dave Robicheaux, a cop who belongs to A.A. The series shows signs of wear. Other Burke plots have been fanciful, but this one is too big and operatic for anything but a James Bond thunderation...