Word: clingingness
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Bush's patriotism is spurious for another reason. It's no-cost patriotism that demands nothing other than self-satisfaction, emotional and material. The Bush-style patriot may refuse to pay more taxes, in fact may demand new tax breaks, while clinging to every Government benefit he now enjoys. The...
So had the candidate whom Sasso had, perhaps too loyally, served. In arranging for an emotional homecoming, the self-reliant Dukakis all but acknowledged that Sasso is the indispensable man. The team of Chairman Paul Brountas and Campaign Manager Susan Estrich had proved adept at directing a safe, within-the...
After walking five miles in the dark from the Rumanian village of Valea lui Mihai, Karoly, his wife Agnes and their two children crouched for hours in thick underbrush near the Hungarian border. Finally, after a group of Rumanian border soldiers marched by, the couple dashed across the so-called...
Hockney was by no means the first English artist to make his homosexuality a theme of his art, but he was the first to do it in a garrulous, social way, treating his appetites as the most natural thing in the world and not, like Francis Bacon, as a pretext...
A decade ago, China appeared to be a monolith, but times have changed. After nine years of Deng Xiaoping's "Second Revolution" -- economic reform -- two Chinas have emerged. In the relatively prosperous coastal regions, millions of successful entrepreneurs are building a future in exports to the outside world. Meanwhile, most...