Word: lessers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These are some of the plot elements of American leadership. The complex maturity of the national success brings with it, paradoxically, a diminution and dispersal. Hierarchies flatten out. Presidents of the U.S. and lesser leaders will be ground down, as the great families were. Scandals, like boll weevils (or special prosecutors), will chew into their administrations. Anyone's 15 minutes of fame is liable to end in a poofing flameout of indignity...
Because one of these days the station is going to come to its senses and start assigning lesser lights to Ivy League broadcasts, if it reaches out to produce them at all... and when it comes to hockey coverage, ESPN does the best job this side of Hockey Night in Canada...
...they waffle and write bad checks, which I'd really like to be able to do but can't. Plus they're always voting themselves pay raises." It's no secret that Americans are cynical, very cynical, about government and often see voting as choosing the lesser of two evils...
...after he saw how small his part would be. "I told them," he says, "'The lines that you've written to be spoken by somebody named Spock can be easily distributed to any of the other characters on the screen."' Which is what happened: Captain Kirk appears with two lesser members of the old crew: chief engineer "Scotty" (James Doohan) and Ensign Chekov (Walter Koenig). Several members of the Next Generation cast, meanwhile, were less than thrilled with their relatively small amount of screen time. Says LeVar Burton, who plays Geordi: "Hopefully, if we do another one of these...
First, and of lesser importance, it shows once again that our top elected officials grew up with a very different conception of this country than most of its people. Both Bill Clinton and Al Gore seem to have had, at least temporarily, a visceral hate for national institutions, or the nation as a whole. This is an interesting realization (and one that may help to explain the corresponding visceral dislike of the Clinton administration by the American people). But on a substantive level the feelings Gore expressed in his letters mean very little...