Word: detoured
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moderate Democrats hope Clinton's about-face is a lasting return to the New Democrat side of his persona, not just another temporary detour. The President seems convinced that, whatever the short-term cost, voters will reward him for being on the right side of the historic debate on balancing the budget. Others, like Representative David Obey, a Wisconsin Democrat, suspect he will eventually waver. Says Obey: "Most of us learned some time ago that if you don't like the President's position on a particular issue, you simply need to wait a few weeks." If nothing else, Clinton...
What matters to James more than genre classification is free-floating inspiration. A case in point is the Children of Men, James' much-discussed futuristic detour from detectives (if not from death...
...Shakespeare," theatrical innovator Peter Sellars once said, "the first thing I do is go to the text for cuts. I go through to find the passages that are real heavy, that really are not needed, places where the language has become obscure, the places where there is a bizarre detour." And then? "I take those moments, those elements, and I make them the centerpiece, the core of the production...
...destination of all writers is ultimately the same: revelation. I think I'll make a detour in Ipswich...
...studying war, teaching military men and listening to them. Like his 1976 work The Face of Battle, his new book is alive with sudden, unexpected details and delights of knowledge -- a treatise, for example, on how to make a composite bow, that revolutionary asset of the horse warrior; a detour into the institutionalized vengeance of Maori warmaking; or a splendid interlude on the effects of geography on war, including a disquisition on why Adrianople, Edirne in modern Turkey, has been the most fought-over place in the world (it stands at the land bridge between Europe and Asia). If Keegan...