Word: duke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these men present very frightening prospects and precedents. It seems incredible that the voters in Louisiana rejected Duke for governor. After all, he was just a hate-monger, not really responsible for the deaths of hundreds. Who knows what convinced him to run in the first place, anyway...
Oliver North knows. He knows that he, like Duke before him, has more than a soldier's fighting chance. The religious right swept Duke up the first few steps to power; North is hoping that he'll make it all the way back to Washington. But don't all those crooked dealings with Iran get in the way? Not in the minds of this country's so-called "moral majority." Those words have come to mean just about nothing...
...North and Duke get so far with such pockmarked pasts? Sure, they both have that gap-toothed charisma, but neither of them came from any side of politics except the underside. It seems that a claim to being "a good Christian"--or at least a repentant one--has become more important than any political savvy or competence. Of course, tens of millions of Americans bear this credential and amazingly resist running for high office. Maybe you also have to write a book, like North, but we have yet to see whether that will work for Dan Quayle...
...four years "struggling with the illness to get it under control medically." After getting better -- Lichtenstein is on the drug Tegretol -- he founded Lichtenstein Creative Media in New York City. Fittingly, his first project was a 1992 Voices program for NPR on manic depression. It was narrated by Patty Duke, who also suffered from the disease. Jason Robards offered to narrate the current schizophrenia program, volunteering that his first wife had been institutionalized for that illness...
Most of baseball's fans were forced, on this, what would have been the final stretch of a phenomenal pennant race, watching Ken Burns's epic "Baseball." Sorry, but as much as I enjoyed the documentary, I would much rather have seen the Indians and White Sox duke it out for first...