Word: fiascoes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Hall was ousted from his farm in Ciskei 13 years ago, when the so- called black homeland became "independent," he is now solidly re- established on rich terrain 60 miles from Cape Town. He looks back on apartheid as "a dreadful fiasco" for everyone concerned. "We're doing well again," he says. "I reckoned it was time I started giving something back." He is one of an increasing number of whites who are trying to help penniless black workers become property owners...
Indeed, perhaps Mr. Clinton is right; the midterm fiasco is directly related to the abandonment of the most basic principles of the Democratic party. Since 1988, when then-Vice-President Bush attacked Governor Dukakis as a "liberal," the Democratic leadership has shied away from the ideological stances that once made the party great. This campaign was no different. There were Democratic candidates against gun control, pro-life Democrats, Democrats against immigration, Democrats against gay rights, Democrats for the death penalty, Democrats compromising their morality -- Democrats willing to do whatever they perceived necessary to win. And they lost...
...make up 30 percent of the electorate -- clearly repudiated the Democrats and Clinton's term so far -- even as they fell short of handing Republicans a mandate. Ironically, the last straw for many was Clinton's signature health care package, which they viewed as a big-government fiasco. "It is impossible to underestimate the amount of damage that health care bill did in shaping Bill Clinton as a big-government proponent," said DLC President Al From, who said Clinton should view the results as a "two-by-four between the eyes." BTW: Greenberg's research wasn't all bad news...
Operation Pocket Change was supposed to be one of the Pentagon's most secret missions. But the Joint Chiefs of Staff did not want to repeat the mistake made in the Desert One fiasco when senior Pentagon officials kept too many key officers in the dark. Tuttle says he was ordered by the Chiefs to expand the circle of officers informed about this operation. On March 18, members of the congressional POW task force were briefed on the Nhommarath sightings. The result was a flood of leaks to the press. Colonel Ronald Duchin, then head of the Pentagon's news...
...American reputation bottomed out in 1964 with a show of nine florid paintings called Discourse on Commodus. They were trashed as a fiasco, in print and by word of mouth. Commodus was the degenerate son of Marcus Aurelius; he became Emperor in the 2nd century A.D., went mad and was strangled. Given the New York art world's self-absorption at the time, it seems fitting that Commodus' assassin was an athlete named Narcissus. Perhaps because of the trauma of their reception, the Commodus paintings are not in moma's show. In any case, Twombly was repatriated to America...