Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Taking full advantage of seven minutes of free TV time last week, ultranationalist Zhirinovsky expounded his unique view of the world with all the subtlety of a firing Kalashnikov. Barely taking a breath, he railed against the country's new bankers, threatened to rain napalm down on villagers in the Caucasus region who kill Russian soldiers, and promised every hungry Russian a bowl of soup. "Russian fathers, do you know where your daughters are?" Zhirinovsky asked. "They're selling their bodies to buy clothes and cosmetics...
...this point the audience is left out of breath and slightly stunned. But the play turns beyond the macabre here, as the Maid and the Professor discuss what to do with the body. After deciding on a mass grave for the Pupil and the 39 other pupils the Professor has killed (we learn from the Maid), the Maid produces a red armband with a swastika on it, puts in on the Professor and tells him not to be afraid. "No one will ask any questions" if you wear this, she says and they leave the stage with the body...
...tell-all television interview that had the British as well as their Americans cousins waiting with bated breath this last week, Diana discussed private issues such as her bulimia, her infidelity, and her thoughts on what she once referred to as "this f--ing family." While this may have won her the support of the public, Diana's motives and methods reveal her to be hardly a victim of the system. Her public reception highlights a society where sympathy increasingly goes to squealers...
...Amtrak from New Haven took a particularly unattractive route through Connecticut to the city. Edward carried his two monogrammed duffle bags overarm across the terminal platform to the overcrowded taxi stands outside. He waited in the cold, watching his own breath diffuse the orange glow of sodium street lamps. God they're ugly, he thought. New York City makes me sick...
Pulling back, Powell realized, does not mean disappearing. There is a middle ground, and that is what he will be searching for as he seeks ways to serve and shape the race he so dominated until last week. He hadn't even caught his breath before people started asking about the vice presidency. In his remarks, he seemed to rule it out, though that is almost a requirement for getting the job. And Dole's team was practically printing up bumper stickers before the day was over. Campaign manager Scott Reed called the idea of a Dole-Powell ticket "orgasmic...