Word: eliane
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...would blame the people of Florida if they were starting to get a little snippy, as Al Gore might put it. First they provided--and endured--the superabundant drama of Elian Gonzalez. Now all the frustrations of one of the closest elections in American history have made a landing on Palm Beach. Florida is the center of a struggle over the operations of American democracy at every level, from the wisdom of the Electoral College to the arrangement of punch holes on a paper ballot. Fidel Castro's Foreign Minister, Felipe Perez Roque, even suggested last week that...
What cliff? If there's a crisis, it's one of the commentariat, that sleep-deprived, hoarse horde frustrated over scrapping non-refundable airline tickets to sunny beaches. They're working double shifts for cable outlets, delighted to have a sequel to Elian in a place where they conveniently have satellite uplinks. Sure, some of the Jewish seniors in jogging suits are a little crabby over being called doddering geezers for voting for Pitchfork Pat, who longs for a Christian nation. There are jokes about our need for outside observers from El Salvador. But I haven't heard...
...heavenly impresarios decided to let the media sensations go dark for a while? The only thing in prospect after Elian was a presidential campaign, with an uninteresting cast of characters - at least after Alan Keyes and John McCain left the show. The suspense ended with Super Tuesday. We had our candidates. Neither possessed the slightest star quality. One of them - or so we thought - would be president. We turned our attention to an intuition that floated up from somewhere in the subconscious, a suspicion that the next big show might be a gaudily dangerous one, a financial collapse or something...
...dispensation of the gods of media, poured forth a procession of such operas - not the lowest notes always, but, in any case, huge performances, one after another, starting with the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings and rolling on through tragedies like Oklahoma City and Colombine, geopolitical soap operas like Elian Gonzalez, through the surpassingly surreal business that began with Monica Lewinsky's blue dress (talk about the lowest note) and culminated in the impeachment of a president...
...heavenly impresarios decided to let the media sensations go dark for a while? The only thing in prospect after Elian was a presidential campaign, with an uninteresting cast of characters - at least after Alan Keyes and John McCain left the show. The suspense ended with Super Tuesday. We had our candidates. Neither possessed the slightest star quality. One of them - or so we thought - would be president. We turned our attention to an intuition that floated up from somewhere in the subconscious, a suspicion that the next big show might be a gaudily dangerous one, a financial collapse or something...