Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pleas for support and cooperation from top White House officials, Scott frequently invoked the First Couple, writing then deputy chiefs of staff Erskine Bowles and Harold Ickes, for instance, that her project "is the President's idea and it is a good one." Such heavy name-dropping has irked many of her White House colleagues, starting from her first day as head of the Office of Correspondence. At her initial meeting with the veteran staff, some of whom had answered letters for John Kennedy, Scott announced, "I was Bill's girlfriend from our hippie days...
...dance or write or act but who can crawl through a pile of truck tires wearing a shower curtain and wave a flashlight and say things. Minneapolitans lean forward and watch them, perspiring, afraid that some subtlety may escape them. St. Paulites look at each other and say, "Whose idea was this...
...advance copy of Life After Death shows Wallace was developing as a performer, but despite several winning songs, there's still an unhealthy amount of thuggery. A record-industry executive who knew him asks, "Why must artists still pimp the idea that life is an ugly reality? It's time to give people dreams back. [Wallace] had moved on, out of the drug dealing. The images he was conveying were still rooted in the ghetto. He wasn't showing his fans that there is another life...
...publicly give anybody the green light to engage in violence, he didn't have to. Once out and about, it wasn't hard for him to figure out what these militants were going to do." While Arafat denies responsibility, other groups are unwilling to give up on the idea of reclaiming Jerusalem by force. "Jerusalem will not be restored by negotiations," Hamas leader Ibrahim Maqadmeh told a roaring crowd of 50,000 in Gaza, "but only with holy war, whatever the sacrifices." Netanyahu seems unwilling to back down, telling reporters he could not be intimidated as he vowed to "deal...
...early days, he played more military men, lawmen and empire builders than he did freelance saddle tramps. "Wayne?s imposing physical presence and the cranky large-heartedness he conveyed on screen, implicitly romanticized dutifulness," notes Schickel. "When he died in 1979 most of us no longer found the idea or the ideal of the frontier very useful. Our culture ceased to celebrate people who bound their lives to the defense of simple, personal moralities such as Wayne embodied. But that, even liberals, deploring his reactionary politics, found they missed. Wayne?s legend, his apparent immortality, the sources of which keep...