Word: falterer
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Candidates rose and fell, many in full public glare. Clinton fell hard for George Mitchell when he played Bob Dole in the campaign-debate rehearsals. Despite minimal foreign policy experience, the Democratic Senator was touted as the front runner for days, only to falter when Democrats showed even less enthusiasm for him than Republicans did. Mitchell may also owe his eclipse to Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, who went to his friend Bill just when the deal seemed done to make a strong pitch for Richard Holbrooke, the ambitious architect of the Dayton accords. Clinton didn't care that...
...variety of activities. I fail to see how creating 15,000 Barbie fashion outfits on a computer will give girls an edge. I'm amazed at how American society reinforces extreme stereotyping, as with this Barbie software, and then bemoans the fact that young girls in later years falter in math and science. Is a Barbie program truly in their best interests or merely another frightening example of the power of consumerism? I hope that when my children are teenagers, unlike Barad's two sons, they have better things to do with their time than be online eight hours...
...message is as much personal as professional. On Oct. 26, Hillary turned 49, a vulnerable age for many women: elderly parents falter, the nest empties, the encroachments of passing time become harder to ignore. In the past four years the Clintons have lost two parents--his mother, her father. The couple dread the day when Chelsea, now 16, will head off to college. On the Asia trip, Hillary was often a solitary figure. She spent the first weekend in Hawaii by herself or alone with her husband, swimming and walking Oahu's rainswept beaches. While Clinton draped his golf cart...
...began in 1953 when the DNA double helix was identified, the modern era of aging research is thought to have begun in 1961, when anatomist Leonard Hayflick made an equally significant discovery. Hayflick had been troubled by the question of where aging begins. Is it the cells themselves that falter, dragging the whole human organism down with them? Or could cells live on indefinitely were it not for some age-related deterioration in the higher tissues they make...
...basis of this performance, deservedly chic Matthew McConaughey. Brigance is a young and desperately unsuccessful lawyer, but he is all that Hailey can afford. Before the movie, based on John Grisham's first novel, is over, crosses will burn on the lawn and crucial witnesses will falter on the stand. Worse, Brigance's home will be destroyed by arson, his marriage will be nearly wrecked, and his tempting, perky paralegal (Sandra Bullock) will be abducted and abused by the Klan. But he will persevere. And his closing argument--screenwriter Akiva Goldsman's most visible addition to the book--will tear...