Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't expanding the nation's economic pie but his own. Even his role as the prophet of the panacea of tax cuts seemed to have been ceded to his onetime protege Steve Forbes. Only three weeks ago, at one of the regular dinners of the pro-growth gang known as the Five Amigos--Kemp, House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Senator Connie Mack of Florida, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber and Senate majority leader Trent Lott--Kemp got in a shouting match with Gingrich, claiming that the party was forsaking its Reaganesque message of growth. So alienated was Kemp that, earlier...
...remembers thinks back a bit, to the '70s, say, and recalls not only Munich but also a procession of equally bloody terrorist horrors--airliners hijacked to the desert or to Entebbe, airports blown apart by bombs in Tel Aviv and Rome, the Red Brigades and the Baader-Meinhof gang and all their telegenic stunts. These spectacles occurred outside the U.S., of course. On the other hand, in April 1968, after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, it looked as if every city in America was on fire. So much for immunities...
...glassless windows, mortar rounds going off as one walks up a city street. After an attack by Serbs, Rosso feels a brief adrenaline high at being alive while others have died. Then shame. He recognizes this and sees that guilt may be what drives him to pursue the swaggering gang leader Luka, who poses as a resistance hero, and may, in some perverted way, actually...
Attention mafianados! at the age of 75, and more than 20 years after Don Vito Corleone and the rest of the Godfather gang abandoned the page for a more glamorous life on the screen, Mario Puzo has started a new family. The Last Don (Random House; 482 pages; $25.95) introduces the Clericuzios, a crime clan based in the Bronx, New York, and at the peak of its dark powers. Fortunately, Puzo too is in top form...
...rather liked being a kid. Immaturity has always struck me as a good trait, whether it be making dumb jokes, shooting rubber bands at people or watching "Scooby Doo." And the Mystery Machine gang is just as cool as it was in second grade...