Word: guyness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House and Senate blinked their way through the Fed chairman?s testimony on the last two Wednesdays ?- testimony in which Greenspan repeatedly shot down the idea of massive tax cuts -- one sensed that another question besides "huh?" was nagging at them this time. Namely, wasn?t this guy supposed to be a Republican...
...believe his friends, the most famous son in the world wanted nothing more than to be a normal guy, to put people at ease. Born to a father who understood politics as a performance art, he hoped at one time to become an actor, but wound up as an editor of a magazine that promised to treat politics as entertainment, which could be seen as a strange gesture toward the arena in which his father and uncle had died...
...Dave Eikenberry told TIME, "and that's amazing, given the sycophants and leg humpers he had to deal with every day. It took enormous fortitude for him to stay well grounded in the face of his bizarre celebrity, but he did it. Besides which, he was just the best guy to do stuff with I've ever known. I'm going to miss him for the rest of my life...
There will be a lot written this week about Greek tragedies and the awesomely inscrutable hand of God in the affairs of an amazing family. But this is also an excruciatingly personal tale about a very decent and solid and self-aware and funny guy, one who knew a lot about bearing great responsibility with a light but knowing dignity...
...apartment or office, he would effortlessly give the impression of being just a regular guy (or sometimes just another beleaguered editor). Then you would glance at one of the pictures on the bookcase, notably the one of him crawling under his dad's desk, and remember what he had been through...