Word: inner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said that wealth and authority, however,only expose people's true inner character. "Powerdoes not corrupt, and money does not corrupt, itunmasks," Blades said. "Whether you're poor orrich if you don't have a solid spiritualbackground you'll become corrupted...
...referring not just to his regional proximity but to the hardscrabble heritage he shares with many of them. It was a matter of class, of culture, of sects, of tribes. The phrase revealed the bitter resentments against people like George Bush that seem to reverberate in Dole's dark inner soul. Bush, the quasi-New Englander, tried to usurp the "I'm one of you" line when his campaign moved to New Hampshire. But from his mouth it sounded a bit silly; one thing Bush is not, no matter how many forklift trucks he is photographed driving...
...expected, the chorus of lesser G.O.P. candidates began making their exits. Alexander Haig (0% in Iowa, last place) quit the race last Friday with a parting shot at Bush -- and, indirectly, at the Reagan inner circle that had ousted him as Secretary of State. "From my point of view," said Haig, "Bob Dole is head and shoulders above George Bush as a potential President." Pete du Pont (7%, fifth place) will soon be heading back to Delaware's chateau country. Jack Kemp (11%, fourth place) had counted on outflanking Bush and Dole on the right as the true-blue conservative...
...Stanford premed student with an out-of-fashion perspective. "Maybe I have different values, I don't know," she says. "But I think my outlook on life has been my advantage. Things like the importance of an education and being whatever you can be give me an inner strength to pull things...
...good Papa Frago" was often described as a cheerful, round-faced little man, ever smiling and carefree -- a kind of idiot savant of the easel. Yet it seems that he was also riven with self-doubt, constantly redoing canvases and often failing to complete commissions. But Fragonard's inner self remains inscrutable. Contemporary references are surprisingly few and unrevealing. If he wrote any letters, none survive. And he stares out enigmatically in only a handful of self-portraits, done in middle...