Word: jarringly
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...Clinton struck first: early in the debate he announced he had submitted his urine for testing and challenged White to do so. The Republican not only agreed but later said his wife would be tested too. Clinton's wife will also submit to a test, further escalating the political "jar wars...
...drug-testing call is also being heard in city government. Setting an example for public employees, San Antonio's Democratic mayor, Henry Cisneros, underwent urinalysis, prompting one suggestion for a new sign for hizzoner's desk: THE JAR STOPS HERE. While Cisneros tested negative, City Councilman Ed Harrington flunked his urinalysis: the test revealed caffeine overload, and Harrington subsequently confessed to a ten-cup-a-day coffee habit...
...rush by lawmakers and government officials to pass antidrug legislation and prove their own purity by submitting to urinalysis has provoked the mirth of columnists and the sighs of weary legislators who have lived through earlier drug crises. New York Times Columnist William Safire writes mockingly of "drugocrats" waging "jar wars." Says Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan: "We're all going to drug conferences and making the Secretary of State pee into a paper...
...bright colors can be inflected to deliver bad news too. In Mark's picture of an old man in his single room, a stark but sickly light signals that the indignities of age are no less painful for being suffered in the sunshine. The red label on a jar of coffee peeks from the refrigerator, an emblem of that sparkling world just outside, but the atmosphere is keyed to the humble brown mess at the bottom of his cooking pan. There must be times in this sunny town when the laughs come hard. That picture points to the prime dilemma...
...State and the Secretary of Agriculture started lobbing grenades at each other over a proposal to sell grain to the Soviet Union. Others entered the argument. Voices rose, arms waved. Through it all, Ronald Reagan sat silently, apparently concentrating on picking the black licorice jelly beans from the crystal jar on the table in front of him. Occasionally, he would look up. Once, as he did so, he caught the eye of an aide sitting opposite him at the back of the room. The President winked. The tumult gradually subsided. When it was peaceful again, Reagan looked up, turned...