Word: heart
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart, [the work] is a cliff-hanging morality tale...
...themselves regard a certain kind of lying as a special kind of sin. A President who breaks his word makes it impossible to do business when the doors are closed and the hands are played and the hard trading begins. Time and again, Bill Clinton made solemn, cross-his-heart promises, about taxes he would support and concessions he would make and difficult positions he would defend, and once they let him have his way he stepped out and all but said, "Suckers!" and pushed them off the ledge...
...every untruth and every deception an outrage...in the murkier grayness of the real world, choices must often be made." Ronald Reagan could remember very little about his efforts to arm the contras, but when confronted with facts indicating that he'd been told about it, he insisted his "heart and [his] best intentions" proved otherwise. After Ollie North bragged about his own lying and got off on a legal technicality, the G.O.P. wanted him to be the Senator from Virginia...
DIED. MICHAEL ZASLOW, 54, Emmy award-winning actor; of a heart attack; in New York City. CBS had dismissed Zaslow from Guiding Light when his speech became slurred from the effects of Lou Gehrig's disease. Undeterred, he reprised a former character on ABC's One Life to Live, successfully incorporating the disorder into the role and raising awareness...
DIED. LAWTON CHILES, 68, two-term Governor of Florida known as "Walkin' Lawton" for his campaign style; of an apparent heart attack; in Tallahassee. Chiles also served 18 years in the U.S. Senate and made a fortune as an original investor in Red Lobster restaurants. He was to leave office next month, succeeded by Jeb Bush...