Word: career
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bruce Willis has based his career on apologizing for being a man. Robert De Niro has based his on not apologizing for being an actor. Neither characteristic necessarily qualifies a man to play the lead in an action movie. But when the bullets are flying, the pyrotechnics are booming, and everyone is ankle-deep in broken glass, the guy who knows how to play charm is bound to look disadvantaged next to the one who knows how to play roles...
While La Prensa and Radio Catolica were being silenced, Foreign Minister Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann summoned U.S. Ambassador Richard Melton to his office. Melton, a career diplomat who arrived in Managua three months ago, listened as D'Escoto accused the U.S. embassy of fomenting unrest and then gave the Ambassador and seven other U.S. diplomats three days to leave the country...
Even without the intervention of gifted chroniclers like Roger Angell and Thomas Boswell, each baseball career is a study in literature. An ironic short story might be apt for the rookie whose only appearance in a big league box score comes at the tag end of a lost season. A sonnet would be fitting commemoration for those human meteors who flash across the big league sky and then flame out, their promise unkept. My four graybeard survivors, of course, deserve nothing less than full-length novels, sprawling Victorian epics that carry them from apple-cheeked anticipation to adult acclaim...
...born; in Boston, his political base; in state politics, still charged with the energies of his election. Michael Dukakis, born and raised in Brookline, was serving his first term in the legislature; he was among those exposed to the sharpest sense of loss. He had pointed to Kennedy's career as a model for his own -- written college advice to his Senate office, attended as a 26-year- old spectator the convention that nominated him in Los Angeles, invoked his name on the stump. Yet when people all around him were losing their heads at the disaster, Dukakis typically kept...
...graduated from high school, his brother, already in college, suffered some fatal wound to that self-confidence the Dukakis-Boukis marriage was meant to instill. Stelian attempted suicide, and was committed to mental care. He lived on, erratically, for 22 more years, haunting the outskirts of his brother's career, organizing with him in the heady days of the C.O.D., winning his own term on the town-meeting committee, then changing party, competing for the votes of his parents (who had to change their registration to Republican when Stelian was on that ticket), trying to sabotage a campaign...