Word: figuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The ascension of Clinton gives older baby boomers a psychological gift that some of them will be loath to accept -- irrefutable proof that they are mature adults. Like the Doonesbury character Zonker Harris, baby boomers have been indulging in the longest adolescence since Archie and Veronica. True, parenthood has tamed...
I thought to myself, "Hey, this day can still go my way," so I continued to walk. From my dorm room, I can look right onto Mass Ave. It only looks a bit busy, not life-threatening. With this in mind, I figured that not much, if anything, could happen...
Bush would do well to ponder how Major could have sunk so low so quickly. The answer is, paradoxically, that Major has stuck to his conservative mandate at a time when voters want a more activist government. Major traded mainly on trust and character to defeat his rival, and he...
From the merely eccentric to the downright bizarre seems to be only half a step for Ross Perot. The populist billionaire last week came up with a new explanation for why he had abandoned his initial presidential campaign on July 16: he wanted to save his daughter Carolyn from a...
Clinton also had learned from Al Gore's failure in 1988. Gore had scored well in the Dixie primaries, Clinton told his aides, but then faltered because he had not developed any plan to follow up on that success. In contrast, Clinton from the very first had poured money and...