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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will choose. She is engaged, however, and Dr. Zamora's visions crumble. In his ensuing despondent mood, he finally faces long-ignored memories of his unsavory past in real-estate. Unhappy and old as he is, these memories spoil his love for the city. His sprawling house no longer seems innocently beautiful, and he muses "you know, the whole city seems so corrupt these days." Even as he decides to escape to Mexico, he realizes the flight is desperate. He won't find happiness there...
...that he knows the electorate better than any of us, knew Rubin's value when he begged his weary cabineteer to ride out impeachment -- a sour stock market was always more dangerous than Ken Starr. And with the Cold War over and the biggest threat to American freedom no longer Russian nukes but Russian rubles, it was Rubin who stepped into the Asian flames with the U.S.-led IMF at his side. Foreign policy (at least until recently) slipped from State's purview into Treasury's, and while Madeleine Albright stumbled around the Middle East and Iraq, Rubin grabbed...
...large-print publications on treadmills, or relaxing with them after a long day on the computer, or using them to read in bed without their glasses. But with the graying of the baby boomers, large-print books are likely to become a mainstream, front-of-the-store--and no longer secret--habit...
...about the mind we all share, the innocent mind and the murderous? That is the real news of your death. That is the news I want to remember next week, when Kosovo is over or not over, and CONGRESS DEBATES GUN CONTROL, and Al Hirt's trumpet is no longer heard...
...acquiring, at warp speed, the cultural treasures of Europe. This applied to modernism as well as to the Renaissance, and it wouldn't change until the late '50s, when Abstract Expressionism began to be elevated into the Triumph of American Painting. Earlier 20th century American art took much longer to be appreciated by Americans (or anyone else). Names like John Marin, Marsden Hartley or Charles Demuth still mean nothing in Europe, and until quite recently the proposal that Stuart Davis was as fine a painter as Jackson Pollock would have struck most cognoscenti as barmy, even heretical...