Word: chasms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time I took up a pen, Bush, Reagan and Carter had been done to death. Now, I'm free to form my own original take on politics. As I teeter on the brink of graduation, the real world a yawning chasm before me, I have a chance to make my mark...
With an intellect unencumbered by a comparable ego, Stephanopoulos was able to bridge the chasm separating the campaign's often mismatched personalities. He made sure that Hollywood's laid-back producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who made the convention bio-film, was on speaking terms with chain-smoking, laser-intense Grunwald; he doled out face time on television among aspiring talking heads; not least, he soothed the brilliant, tightly coiled gonzo strategist James Carville by watching infomercials and Julia Child with him when Carville was too nervous to work...
These stirring words commemorated the last time that one generation ceded power to the next. The 22-year age chasm between President-elect Bill Clinton and George Bush is the second largest in U.S. electoral history, surpassed only by the 27 years separating Kennedy and Dwight Eisenhower. But this generational conceit is unlikely to be updated as a theme for Clinton's Inaugural Address. Imagine a hapless Clinton speechwriter struggling to reduce the baby-boomer life experience to tough-minded Kennedyesque cadences. No way would the incoming President dare tell the unvarnished generational truth: "Again, the torch has been passed...
...astuteness is to play `honest', to pretend it's all ready to be understood and changed. But it isn't. Government and politics in the U.S. is an enormously complicated matrix of power upon which bewildered voters are expected to decide every four years. Modern day life--a vast chasm of unknowing. In its place, the theater of politics rolls on. And my sandwich laughs on in bliss...
...same time AIDS has coalesced an emerging gay community, however, the disease has also divided it. The most obvious chasm is between those who are ; already infected with the disease, or at least the virus that brings it on, and those who test negative for it. HIV-positive men, especially those still healthy, feel they are entitled to a normal life as long as possible; HIV- negative men fear imperiling their physical and, even more, their emotional health. The greatest concern of many, if not most, HIV-positive men is to ensure that someone will be around to ease them...