Word: ironizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...iron law of scandal is that no matter how grave or trivial the initial offense, the press will inevitably reduce the issue to a simple question of honesty. By traditional, George Washington cherry-tree standards, Quayle appears to be guilty only of shading the truth. But there has also been a troubling pattern of lapses of memory surrounding Quayle's public statements since he was tapped by Bush. Initially, Quayle claimed he could not remember if anyone helped him get into the Guard. In an NBC interview Wednesday night, he conceded that "if phone calls were made...
...Philistines forged a formidable reputation as warriors because they possessed a monopoly on iron smelting, and perhaps they even made steel. With advanced swords and shields, they fought the neighboring Israelite tribes, mortally wounded King Saul and stole the Holy Ark of the Covenant. In the face of the Philistines' military threat, the powerful kingdoms of Israel and Judah united against them. Defeated first by David and then by the Egyptians in an alliance with Solomon, the Philistines went into decline in the 10th century...
Other experts believe short-term or roving deans diminish the job and shortchange the schools. "It makes the dean just an errand boy and caretaker," objects Erwin Griswold, 84, who ruled Harvard Law with an iron hand from 1946 to 1967. "For a dean to get a grasp of an institution and to know the players, it takes a few years," says the A.B.A.'s White. "I hope the trend will reverse itself...
Sharon Kowalski has always been a maverick. While her brother and sister stayed close to home -- the Iron Range of northern Minnesota -- Sharon struck out on her own. She worked her way through college, found a teaching job, bought a house with a friend and developed her passions for photography, cross-country skiing and motorcycling. "I used to tell her I got a new gray hair every time she took off for somewhere," recalls her mother Della. "Kids do lots of things you don't like, but you still love them." In short, a willful young woman...
...lover of an AIDS patient who finds himself ignored or reviled by the victim's family. Thompson says she thinks the Kowalskis "would rather see their daughter a vegetable than a lesbian." Thompson recalls that Sharon once told her that homosexuality was practically a "hanging offense" on the Iron Range...