Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wonders: Were these The Best Years of Our Lives? (Or 14 months, anyway?) William Wyler's star-stocked 1946 Oscar sweeper -- it's the reason It's A Wonderful Life got shut out -- is about nostalgia earned the hard way, and getting back to real life after the fog of battle clears. Because war tends to leave lots and lots of scars. The House managers are now the ones who need prosthetic hands (we won't discuss the prosthetic meant for Clinton here) and for pols, prez and press alike there's Purple Hearts all around...
...approves of educators who use drugs, the Gazette editorialized last week. But in the fog of charges, it warned, don't lose sight of the principal's record. The paper recalled the August day when a house burned down; the principal helped the firemen lug hoses and waited there until the children, his students, came home. He wanted to help them cope with their loss. Or the time he was quick to arrive at the scene of a school-bus crash, comforting victims and helping the rescuers. But most important, the paper said, was his morality and courage under fire...
...show, calls the Paris of the 1930s a city on the cusp "between the era of the Belle Epoque and that of the Modern Age." The gas lamps of Europe were giving way to electric streetlights. That meant a new kind of nighttime, full of sexy pinpoints in the fog, 20th century floodlights over 19th century cobblestones, popguns of brightness in dark places that told dirty jokes about the naked city. As photographers elsewhere were doing--Josef Sudek in Prague, Bill Brandt in London--Brassai claimed as his territory the nocturnal city that camera and film technology was just then...
When the smoke--well, the fog of diplomacy--cleared, Saddam Hussein emerged whole from last week's confrontation with the U.S., ready to live and cheat again. For that he can thank Kofi Annan. Three times the U.N. Secretary-General insinuated himself into the showdown. By the time he was done, he had saved Saddam from the most serious attack on his regime since the Gulf...
...General pursue his strategy of fight and delay, but no more: His next British court date is set for December 11. For the now-well patient, it may be time -- if not to open all the dossiers -- at least to open all the windows and welcome in that London fog...