Word: broken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convincing denial of the Lewinsky charges. Clinton himself was practically in the fetal position, "freaking out," an associate said, a sort of response that was enough to convince many who had watched him over the years that the stories were substantially true. Only Mrs. Clinton seemed more angry than broken, appalled by the very notion of a sting operation against a President, reminding people how offended everyone had been to learn about J. Edgar Hoover's wiretapping Martin Luther King Jr. and spreading stories about his sex life. Wasn't Starr doing the same kind of thing to the President...
...this year of unrequited love and loyalty betrayed, the most painful story of broken hearts doesn't involve Bill and Monica or Bill and Hillary or even Monica and Linda. It's American conservatives and the American people. And the saddest romantic outcry of the year wasn't Monica telling Bill, "I need you right now, not as a President, but as a man!" It was the sigh of perplexity that issued a few weeks ago from William J. Bennett. It appeared in the New York Times in a story about how conservatives were coming to grips with the fact...
...American Library Association or peruse review journals. But that means extra reading and legwork after long days; often teachers have little time to do more than quickly pick from "kits"--catalogs sent by publishers. Such kits seldom feature nuanced books, says Calfee, especially on subjects such as race or broken homes. "It's a bit more than Dick and Jane, but it's all happy-face stuff," he says. An editor in the children's book industry admits "there are many great books out there" that are not included but argues, "You can't come at Americans with this stuff...
...defines the ideal norm: he is our best us on our worst day, soldiering on through heartbreak. In Saving Private Ryan, for which he may earn his third Oscar as the tough, paternal Captain Miller, Hanks has a moment when the burden of leadership in war has nearly broken him. He walks over a hillside from his fractious men (far enough away that no one will see him) and sobs (so softly that no one will hear him). He is discreet even in despair...
...NUSSBAUM BUILDING, OSNABRUCK, GERMANY This gallery, housing works of an artist who died in Auschwitz, is the first architectural theorist Daniel Libeskind, 52, has finished. Libeskind's ideas on the presence of absence--how to represent something that isn't there--and his fascination with layers and the fractured, broken and diagonal line make for some fabulously strange exhibition spaces (not to mention dangerous windows...