Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...small, white frame farmhouse where Nixon was born in 1913. Having consecrated the place -- his life from birth through presidency all handsomely compacted there -- Nixon completed a circle. As he spoke last week, he seemed a little tired and rambling. It had after all been an exhausting 77-year circuit from the room where he was born to this ritual of fulfillment. But even in the mellowness of the moment, Nixon still gave off emanations of the film-noir pol that a part of him has always played, the shadow of that something in his character that is remorseless...
Helmut Kohl deserves credit for what is happening in Germany, but not quite as much as his occasionally bumptious demeanor suggests. He's in some danger of becoming the Goodyear blimp of the international diplomatic circuit, soaring above everyone from Houston to Zheleznovodsk, inflated with the self- satisfaction of a politician on a roll. He is that, of course, but he ought to be more. And less. The world is watching not because Kohl is leading his Christian Democratic Union into an election later this year but because his country is triumphing over two of the great curses of this...
...Stock-Car Auto Racing. That is more spectators per event than is averaged by pro football and major league baseball combined. Nearly 40% of audience members are women, up from 25% eight years ago. Televised coverage of this year's Daytona 500, the biggest race of the nine-month circuit, drew a higher rating than the National Basketball Association play-offs...
...door handles, glass and backseats from "stock" cars (i.e., directly off showroom floors) and muscling up the engines in their own garages. Although Johnson had to take an enforced break from driving to serve a 10-month bootlegging sentence, his road skills won him 50 races on the NASCAR circuit. A cult developed around him and other cavalier drivers who flouted the law, pocketed good money, spit tobacco and always had great tales to tell...
Speculation immediately focused on a wide range of possible replacements. Among the most prominent: U.S. Solicitor General Kenneth Starr; U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills; two Fifth Circuit Appeals Judges, Edith Jones of Houston and Patrick Higginbotham of Dallas; and Thornburgh. Bush also has given Gray a list of at least three Hispanics he wanted checked out as possible Justices...