Word: letting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...used at the 1980 Democratic Convention, when he said, "The dream shall never die." A Kennedy friend who was there told TIME, "I've seen this family in other sad circumstances, and I'm telling you, this was different. This gang is shell-shocked, blown away. This wasn't, 'Let's have 10 family members get up and say the torch is passed, time for a new generation.' None of that. This was a funeral...
...Bridgehampton, N.Y., to comfort the niece he treats like a daughter over the loss of her brother, whom he loved like a son. There was a torch being passed after all. In the '60s, Ted Kennedy's generation orchestrated the death rituals. Now the old Senator was going to let Caroline, a member of the new generation, take charge. There were terrible decisions to be made, but not before Uncle Ted shot baskets with Caroline's kids until they could be heard squealing with delight behind the hedge...
...says. One of the many flaws in this plan is Montenegro's determination not to become more closely involved with Serbia as long as Milosevic is still around. Perhaps the best alternative, however, would be a united front among opposition parties. But Draskovic's ego and ambition won't let him join in such togetherness: he has resolutely refused to ally himself with any of the other opposition parties. One of Belgrade's film critics says Knife is about reconciliation, "a hand in the air, trying to shake some other hand." But if that's the real message...
...Dylan!" The crowd roars in fernetic expectation. This was a surprise, partly because, for the greater part of the summer, I have been surrounded by anti-Dylan enthusiasts and militants. I was afraid that my defense of Dylan could be likened to a musical Steward's Folly (but let's just remember how much oil was found in Alaska). Although, in my childishly ego-centric way, I could never understand why Dylan's music is so disagreeable; I had still assumed that most of the audience was there to see Simon, not Dylan...
...enough. The company went up for sale and, while on the market, lost its contract with the New York Daily News, which may well have been its lifeblood. UPI's contract with the also-struggling tabloid was good for $55,000 per month. In desperate denial, UPI offered to let the Daily News hang on to its service for free for months, hoping to win back the contract. Enter the Tennesseans...