Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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By all rights Bill Clinton should have felt on top of the world last week after sweeping the last coast-to-coast crazy quilt of six state primaries. The Arkansas Governor eliminated Jerry Brown by winning 48% to 40% in his home state of California, and consequently clinched the Democratic...
Sarajevo burns and the world watches. The first serious shooting war to erupt in the heart of Europe in 40 years elicits protests and admonitions, Security Council resolutions and embargoes, but nothing that stops the carnage. In Croatia, where a U.N. cease-fire is supposed to have ended the fighting...
Growing up, Kevin spent a part of each of his summers in Louisiana, where his mother was raised, and in the summer before college, he began to recognize it as a locus for his poetry. In the summer of 1988, he says, "I fell in love with [the Pulitzer-Prize...
And the album is produced by -- can this be right? -- the Smithsonian Institution? Aren't they the earnest scholars who compile hours of field hollers and other historic folk music? Yes, but in 1971 the Smithsonian began moving gradually into mainstream pop and jazz, first by mail order and, since...
JAMES SQUIRES, 49, IS AN UNLIKELY PRESS SPOKESMAN because he comes close to fitting the stereotype of the crusty, all-sides-are-suspect city editor. Perhaps that is why he has proclaimed his distaste for the impure partisanship of most political press secretaries. "I'm not a spin doctor," he...