Word: cliffes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye, and all," he says. "Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around--nobody big, I mean--except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff--I mean, if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just...
What all these moves have in common--and there will be a parade of such initiatives from now until November--is that they are designed to cast the President in effect as the energetic young man standing in the rye, protecting our children from running over the cliff. It is a strategy designed to recast the image of government: instead of the supercilious bureaucrat with mountains of paper and regulations, government now becomes the safety-patrol volunteer, the lifeguard, the friendly cop on the beat buying a lost child an ice cream cone before calling his worried parents...
...novels have been called Dickensian, largely on the basis of the first one, which is jammed with plot and characters and ends with the cliff-hanger of Annelies' legal kidnapping. But as the series continues, Minke's adventures--he becomes a journalist and publishes a successful newspaper in opposition to the Dutch rule--serve almost entirely as the framework for an endless series of questing dialogues. Sourly or hopefully, with colleagues or adversaries, Minke explores the nature of colonialism and capitalism, the psychology of police power, the role of women, the techniques of political organization, the efficacy of boycotts...
...disease with surprisingly mild repercussions on many of those it infects--unless it turns out to be symptomatic of an economy heading off a cliff. Those declaring bankruptcy can still end up keeping their homes, their cars, their jobs and even some credit cards. The most popular provisions are in Chapter 7, which enables the overburdened to shed most of their IOUs; some debtors need only fill out a two-page form. Connoisseurs say the best places to go bust are Texas and Florida, where debtors can hold on to more of their assets than in any other states...
Indeed, one of the reasons Johnson flies faster than anyone else is that he is so well grounded. He grew up in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, the son of Paul Johnson, a truck driver, and Ruby Johnson, a teacher. They instilled in Michael and his brother and three sisters a sense of discipline and an appreciation for learning. "My folks," says Michael, "are the kind of people who wouldn't want you to make too much of their influence. They would say they were just doing their job, and they would be right. It tells you something about...