Word: checkbooks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some fundamentals have not been abandoned. While targeted to a broader but still affluent readership, much of the advertising remains the same. One can still indulge in checkbook liberalism, save indigenous peoples on the brink of extinction, help educate innercity children, purchase personalized cartouches and locate points of departure for global heroics, even while deciding which luxury car to purchase. The Tilley hat is still available...
...quality of life so Chelsea doesn't grow up believing food just magically materializes on her plate. They went to the grocery store together, one day after Hillary picked up Chelsea from school, to get peanut butter and cereal, only to find that they had insufficient cash and no checkbook. Lately the First Mom has been helping her daughter make the perilous journey from age 12 to 13 in a new city without the close-knit extended family and friends of Little Rock. The elder Rodhams had stayed in the Governor's mansion with Chelsea when her parents were away...
...Stein, Gertrude's brother. His intellectual mentor was the educator John Dewey, whose book Democracy and Education formed his ideas about education for "the masses" through art. After 1918, Barnes' acquisitions became obsessive. His biggest spree was in the early '20s, when he went charging through Paris waving his checkbook (earning the disapproval of Gertrude Stein, who thought him vulgar) and haggling like a mule trader. The postwar market for modern art was low, and Barnes got nearly everything he wanted, including, as he later boasted, the entire contents of the "drunk, sick and broken" Chaim Soutine's studio...
...harrumphing that it's amateur night. That those out celebrating the millennium are no doubt the very same people who can't even spell it. (Two Ls, two Ns.) You can work yourself into a froth about how the calendar change promises only to render every check in your checkbook obsolete and produce a baby boomlet of Millies and Millards. As you down a glass of warm buttermilk before bed, you can note ! with satisfaction that the year is off to a bad start: ABC says Two Thousand, CNN says Twenty Hundred. Then you can fall asleep counting millennial sheep...
...rife that he longs to cap his political career with the German presidency. Some analysts reasoned that Genscher, Germany's most popular and peripatetic politician, knew he had shepherded his projects of European integration and East-West rapprochement as far as they could go. With the days of checkbook diplomacy ending for a nation strapped by the costs of unity, this was Genscher's chance...