Word: generousity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Danny is the best of both parents: gifted, generous, fiercely loyal. Growing up fugitive, he has acquired the cagey independence of an Army brat. He knows enough to stay home from school the day of the class picture. A sixth sense of self-protection tells him when someone has entered the room behind him. By nature gregarious, he must keep the truth about his family guarded from those who would be his pals. But Danny is, after all, a teenager. He has a girlfriend (Martha Plimpton) now, and a secret that is aching to burst from him like young lust...
Peace and harmony -- and money -- were the watchwords in Beijing last week when Asia's economic superpower, Japan, came courting. Japanese Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita spent six days in China trying to make amends for a recent history of bilateral irritations by passing out generous loans, grants and credits. His trip was judged a solid success...
George Bush knows this too, or at least his speechwriter does. "I want a kinder, gentler nation," he said. Washington is still debating whether Bush really is the generous-spirited character he intermittently displayed in his acceptance speech. I'm agnostic on that one. But even Bush's critics don't believe he's really the hate-filled demagogue of his current Mr. Hyde phase. He seems, rather, to have made a Faustian bargain: my soul for the presidency. Several of Bush's campaign advisers are well suited to the role of Mephistopheles...
...safe with any of the above and shrimp in hot black bean sauce ($8.95). The latter is a very generous portion (a dozen large-to-middling size shrimps) in a sauce made complex by the addition of fermented black beans. The beans are the basis of a rich sauce of their own in Cantonese cookery. Here their aromas blend with the Szechwan bouquet in a way that I find very novel. Perhaps this is the "continental cuisine" of Taipei, where Chef Hou won his epaulettes at a major hotel...
Dukakis, whose campaign stops also feature generous reliance on the Stars and Stripes, responds that patriotism means respect for the law rather than ritual. "I can't imagine a President of the United States who knows that a bill is unconstitutional and proceeds to sign it anyway," he declared last week. "If the Vice President is saying that he would sign an unconstitutional bill, then in my judgment he is not fit to hold office." Escalating the hyperbole, Dukakis likened Bush's stance on the pledge to the wanton disregard for law revealed in the Iran-contra affair...