Word: drifting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fantasies seep into facts. Entertainment and journalism drift back and forth across the borders. The bicameral arrangement of culture and politics dissolves. The baby of the (nonexistent) Murphy Brown flies out of its cradle and hovers like an illicit pink cherub over the American presidential succession...
...great thing about them is that they all have an observant intelligence: they can see how lunatic their enterprise is, how silly they must look pursuing it and how refreshing it is sometimes just to drift away into fantasy. You might call them the gang that couldn't think straight. You might also reflect, in these grim, get-to-the-point times, that this is their strength, and the strength of this endearing movie. God, they say, is in the details. But fun, and the source of our best inspirations, is in the details that at first look irrelevant...
...external world's interest in Africa threatens to become merely charitable -- a matter of humanitarianism, a moral test for the West. Should the wealthy nations allow Africa to drift further and further into the margins? Says Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution: "I don't think we could live with ourselves, or would want to, if we sat by while millions of people of a different color are condemned to misery and death...
...Lengthy pause)) I'm not sure I follow the drift...
Against this backdrop of drift and looming defeat, Clinton, prodded by his wife Hillary, belatedly realized that the campaign structure in Little Rock had to be revamped for the general election. It had become too much a mirror of Clinton's own personality, particularly his tendency to skirt conflict, paper over differences and thus tolerate confusion. "He's got good political instincts, but the problem is that he's so facile and adroit that people come away thinking they've heard what they want to hear," says a senior campaign adviser. Hillary does not have this problem. "She's quicker...