Word: hopeful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dawn on the day he launched his official presidential-announcement tour, Senator John McCain went home again to the U.S. Naval Academy, where he promised 4,000 cheering midshipmen that, win or lose, he would "keep faith with the values I learned here. I hope I make you as proud of me as I am proud of you." He sounded the same theme before a noontime crowd in Nashua, N.H., as he conjured up the moment when a President has to divine "the reasons for, and the risks of, committing our children to our defense." He reminded those gathered that...
...primitive letter board. Ball's tenaciously loving parents read him literature and played him music from the time he was still an infant; by age 9, he was testing at a 12th-grade reading level. Particularly partial to Tolstoy, Ball offers musings that are often similarly elliptical: "I hope to gather thinkers/ To give them my thoughts about Love/ Love to clean their ideas/ That cleaning might loosen the love in their hearts...
...best you can hope to pick up at most art openings is some vicious gossip and cheap champagne. But at her Fifth Avenue gallery last week, venerable art dealer MARY BOONE offered a little more. For a show featuring a sculpture made of guns, Boone filled a vase with 9-mm cartridges, a thoughtful parting gift for art patrons. Unfortunately, the law didn't see it that way. Police took Boone to jail, where she spent more than 24 hrs. and was charged with possessing an exposed rifle and disposing of ammunition. She maintained the bullets weren't live (ballistics...
...Dodge body to NASCAR teams. The old Chrysler Corp. dropped out of stock car racing when the company slashed its motor-sports program in the 1970s in an effort to save money. It is no secret in Detroit that representatives from NASCAR have been wooing Dodge for years in hope that the addition of another big all-American nameplate will help make the Winston Cup series even more popular. With NASCAR events routinely outdrawing basketball, baseball and ice hockey on network and cable television, DaimlerChrysler officials believe the time has come to return to the track, putting aside those very...
...going to pay about 15 bucks to go out to the movies, you're probably not looking for any surprises. You wouldn't want to find a tangle of hair in your popcorn, you wouldn't expect a fly in your drink and you'd certainly hope the feature was worth the ticket and your time. If you're looking for a little nookie with that cutie two seats down...well, that might be a little much to ask. So why are you making that idiotic pass during the closing credits? It goes to show that we all need...