Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believed they were), then Clinton was guilty of nothing more than frat boyishness, Steinem wrote. Backlash author Susan Faludi also made excuses for the President, writing in the Nation that along with other powers, women have gained "the power to forgive men." And in the places where you would expect feminist indignation to be thriving--the elite liberal colleges of the Northeast--TIME found in numerous interviews that it isn't. On the Clinton sex scandal, Barnard College senior Rebecca Spence says, "As a self-defined feminist, I should be outraged...
...terrain of Seamus Deane's new novel can be stunningly lovely, as green and verdant as one would expect the Emerald Isle to be. His young narrator, never named, frolics though ferns and splashes in streams in near-idyllic countryside whenever he gets the chance to slip off with his friends. Yet all is not serene in this seeming pastoral; each crossing of the clear and shallow brook is a violation of the law. The narrator lives on the border of the Irish Free State, and the river hems him into his native Northern Ireland...
...think it's very interesting that we're just a little bit behind those," he said. "I guess it's about where I would expect...
...China's grand and often bloody history is what big films are made for. Unfortunately, confrontation is the last thing President Clinton is looking for this week -- so don't expect this visit to raise David Lean from the dead. Unless someone remakes Farewell, My Concubine...
...potential and that it's worthy of being treated like a normal country where a lot can be achieved," says Branegan. "His trip is to show the U.S. media the parts of China he wants them to see in order to understand the need for engagement." So don't expect any breakthroughs on trade, Taiwan, Tibet or human rights. Instead, expect a preview of the next century...