Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world -- the one of current Hollywood movies and TV shows -- is in disrepair. In its tatty bazaar, peddlers hawk worn-out notions as if the items held their former glamour. Hoary formulas (sci-fi, sitcom) near exhaustion, and a smoggy dusk shrouds the industry like crape...
OPTIMISTIC OR PESSIMISTIC, even some of the best-informed men and women simply cannot bring their imagination to accept certain possibilities. In 1901, two years before they took off from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Wilbur Wright told his brother Orville that man would not fly for 50 years. Not long before the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Admiral William Leahy advised President Harry Truman, "That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done . . . the bomb will never...
...Democrats too have been using the military pork barrel as a grab bag of gifts. Bill Clinton, for instance, backs more Seawolfs for Connecticut. And of course nothing turns a liberal Congressman into a hawk faster than the threat of a base closing on his home turf...
...Gulf War. Clinton says that he would have voted for the Senate resolution authorizing the President to go to war, but also that he agreed with the minority position "that we should give sanctions more time and maybe even explore a full-scale embargo." Hawk or dove? Your call...
...Stillwater rivers, Dayton is the kind of town where locals still thank travelers for visiting and really mean it. "We're so white bread," chuckles Sidlo, referring to the regional temperament rather than skin color. Though modest, residents are still demonstrably jealous of the fact that Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, gets all the glory for the first Wright brothers flight, even though the inventors lived and worked in Dayton. "Hell, we deserve the credit," says Thomas Heine, president of the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce. But he admits that name recognition is not one of Dayton's greater assets...