Word: glo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obscure yet costly rules and regulations that he hopes to bring under control. At the moment, no aspect of procurement escapes Gore's memory. While some politicians speak in sound bites and some in windy paragraphs, Gore speaks at book length whenever possible. One of his favorite gigs -- Mop & Glo for short -- is an extended riff on the insanely complex specifications for a federal purchase...
GROWING UP IN THE '70s wasn't an easy task. How many of us will let peers see our childhood pictures complete with shaggy hair, big glasses and polyester playsuits in day-glo colors? Speak for yourself! you might all be shouting. But I know I speak for more than a few people when I say that these were ugly years to be a child. Luckily, we didn't have to grow up alone...
Dream of a garden painted by Rousseau, under the canopy of a huge Tiffany lampshade and inhabited by creatures from Fellini's or Tim Burton's wittiest musings. In this Day-Glo, candy-cane fantasia, the whole food chain is on display. The roustabouts wriggle like worms; some of the featured artistes are dressed as tigers or lizards. The clowns could be from a Greenwich Village Halloween parade: Munchkins and bathing beauties, Road Warriors and samurai. This is a circus even Madonna could love -- commedia dell'arte as restaged by surrealists in a birthday-party mood...
...curtain's stylized glimpse of Manhattan evokes the '40s-ish nostalgia of Guys and Dolls, while the main set, a dark framework strewn with irregular cutout boxes of vivid color, recalls the '60s -- and, more precisely, Simon's musical hit Sweet Charity. A carousel-like jungle gym in Day-Glo tones suggests the '70s, as do the male lead's fixations on meditation and macrobiotics. The sexual precocity of the female lead's 12-year-old daughter feels contemporary. Yet the sonorous music and often sentimental lyrics seem straight from the '50s. This mishmash makes it harder to swallow...
Prudence or Pandering? It is clear that Saddam expected to get away with seizing Kuwait and that Washington was startled by his decision to embark on this wild course. Both miscalculations were serious failures of U.S. policy: it was a tactical error not to lay down Day-Glo markers around Kuwait and a strategic one to misread Saddam's expansionist goals...