Word: crystallize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is a good day to be Bill Bradley. It's a warm September afternoon, the day Bradley presides over his campaign kickoff in his boyhood hometown of Crystal City, Mo.--and the day the chattering classes begin to realize what Bradley already knows: he has maneuvered himself into position to wrest the Democratic presidential nomination from Al Gore. The former basketball star and three-term New Jersey Senator has just given what some are calling the most effective speech of his career, a fuzzy, conversational, unabashedly idealistic sermon that sells him as the savior of politics itself ("The American...
...mark this euphoric moment? Half an hour after his big speech--an act of enormous extroversion that required him to brag about his athleticism, discipline and small-town purity--he is visibly withdrawing, pulling back into himself. Folded into a chair on the stage in the packed and jubilant Crystal City High School gym, the scene of his earliest hoop glory, he's listening to old friends extol his essential goodness, but he's looking bored and distracted one minute, uncomfortable the next: it's hard for him to cede control of his own story. A black Little League teammate...
...annual Boston Folk Festival last weekend showed that they do work harder. Shuttling between the bright orange seats of the UMass Science Center and lawn chairs and coolers outside, I was rewarded by artists buff enough to take the bruises from hours of practice, by new and high crystal voices, and music coaxed out of beat-up guitars by unmanicured hands. This Saturday was the story of the unglamorous side of the American music dream...
...another whine-fest on my way in, I instead was caught up with the crowd in wildly applauding the willowy Dee Carstensen strumming her harp siren-style and wailing in a thin voice reminiscent of Sixpence None the Richer. But these women were no naifs. Cheryl Wheeler's crystal clear voice whispered and cried up and down the scales and gave slightly melodramatic lines like, "don't wonder why you left/wonder why you stayed so long" truly tragic depth...
Kovach did not comment specifically on Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine's upcoming choice of a new curator, except to say that he hopes his replacement will be "a quality journalist with crystal-clear values...