Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Lebed was running for President last spring, one of his campaign posters showed him in battle dress over the caption, "I have already stopped one war." That was a reference to his termination of a mini-civil war in Moldova after it went independent in 1991 and a promise he could do the same in Chechnya. He was startled nonetheless when he learned two weeks ago that Yeltsin had named him his new special representative to find a settlement in the breakaway region. Lebed was sure his rivals in the government "apparatus" were trying to set him up. "Someone...
...above them. How he came home from World War II not alive or dead but in-between, boxed and crated in a plaster cast, shot up in so many places that he was reduced at 21 to a second infancy, learning all over again how to walk, eat, dress himself with clip-on ties and laceless shoes. How he fought his way from county attorney to Senate leader, driving for miles, stopping in front of every swaying porch lamp to beg, "Vote for Dole. Dole, like the pineapple juice." How he has triumphed in spite of his epithets: hatchet...
...found the perfect place for a solitary man who wants to help other people but is allergic to being helped himself. Next to the Supreme Court, the Senate is the most private realm of public life, a closed club with rituals and codes and rules about how to dress and what to call one another and where to sit and what to say. It is a place where two doorkeepers stand like griffins by nearly every door, where the interns in the cloakroom will unwrap his Snickers bar for him, where everyone is so civil and cordial they just pitch...
...flees her marriage in Venezuela, running all the way to Paris (still in her wedding dress) to try out a career in opera singing. She moves in with some country women, seeks out a voice professor, and sets out on a quirky and colorful adventure to find happiness...
...become an interrupted souvenir, an image of the monument born in France that never made its way home. Out of a camera bag fished from the waste came a list in pencil, in what seemed to be a young girl's handwriting. Amy: light pink, size 8. Corry: dress. Steph: orange or hunter green--the plan for a spree in Paris, transformed into a haiku of loss. And somewhere lost in the waters too is an unuttered promise, a diamond ring to accompany a proposal to a lover who must now long for the rest of her life. The miasma...