Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: Can you have a trial without witnesses? Trent Lott would prefer it that way. The Senate majority leader is testing out the idea of a quick and painless two-week impeachment trial of Bill Clinton to start January 11. After a few readings from the Book of Starr and presumably a quick acquittal (followed by a censure resolution), the whole mess would be history...
...Digest bromide that laughter is the best medicine; we could name two recent invalids whose hearts were lifted by David Sedaris' impression of Billie Holiday singing the Oscar Mayer jingle on NPR. But waking old folks at midnight and making loud mischief seem like a manic camp counselor's idea of fun: indoctrination by comedy. The supporting characters, from the hospital dean (Harve Presnell) to Patch's girlfriend (Monica Potter), are similarly bludgeoned. They begin as skeptics and end, their wills crushed, as dewy believers...
Those leaders you've named so far in your TIME 100 list of achievers in business, government and the arts probably wouldn't give your list a second look. They broke through the rigid barriers everyone else said existed and wouldn't accept the idea that you can name the Top 100 of anything. But go ahead, make your selections. I guarantee that those who make the TIME list in 2100 won't be thinking along your lines. DAVID ROSEN Buffalo...
...which he praised men's habit of saying little to their pals. It conjured up an image of cavemen at a time when language was little more than a series of grunts. How dull the friendship Rosenblatt described must have been if he "cannot recollect a single idea exchanged." What emerges from his description is a sort of emotional paralysis. A relationship between two people, men or women, is only as good as the communication between them. MICHAEL SOUTHON Aragua, Venezuela
...timers used to tell me that taking part in Roosevelt's New Deal was one of the greatest political experiences in history. Any good idea got a hearing. Those programs that did not work were torn up, and the young, brainy aides would start over the next day. At night, when Roosevelt gathered his band of political warriors around him, there was robust laughter and the tinkle of his martini pitcher and his long cigarette holder pointed at a rakish angle, which signaled to everybody that the U.S. was rising from its fear...