Word: chokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Meryl Streep would make a good Hillary--excellent at dramatizing pain in a marriage--but surely she would choke on this line from James B. Stewart's Blood Sport: "You can't be a woman if you don't have children. It's the central mission of women," which Hillary wouldn't utter at her most wonkish. In the end, it's not surprising that Hillary, rather than the Governor, may have been more involved in Whitewater. Political wives are often left to build a nest egg while their husbands are building empires--see Marianne Gingrich (who has taken heat...
...Prince Charles--attended the memorial ceremony for the Gulf War dead. The regal phalanx was secondary news as papers devoted pages to Diana's latest crisis. That sort of snub inspires the kind of resentment that dies hard among people who expect celebrity treatment even though they would choke on the word...
...realization that the surest path toward self-discovery is self-disclosure. In an effort to heal body and spirit following a second coronary-bypass operation at the relatively young age of 52, he was determined to seek out the sources of the internalized anger that had twice threatened to choke off his life by causing a heart attack. This evocative book is the result...
...week's end the U.S. announced that talks were slated to be held late this week in Geneva between the foreign ministers of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia. Nevertheless, the Bosnian Serbs rejected U.N. demands to end the siege of Sarajevo, leading to a NATO ultimatum to end the choke hold on the city or face renewed air strikes...
Kurilskoye Lake, in the southern part of the peninsula, offers a glimpse of a paradise lost elsewhere on the planet. Sockeye salmon choke the mouths of streams, huge brown bears and their cubs feed on cloudberries in the surrounding sun-dappled meadows, while a giant stellar sea eagle rides the thermals on the flanks of one of the volcanoes ringing the lake. Boulders made of porous volcanic rock float at the edge of the lake, seemingly defying gravity. George Schaller, the renowned and famously dour American wildlife biologist, who is visiting the region to study brown bears, looks out over...