Word: lurch
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...around Capitol Hill last week, giving a few new pieces of intelligence about Nicaragua's support of the leftist rebels in El Salvador. More important, advocates of the contra effort point out that withdrawal of aid robs the Administration of a significant bargaining chip and leaves in the lurch those fighters who had come to rely on the U.S. But even Reagan's staunchest supporters now concede that the covert program could be coming to an end. "I have been here long enough to know what all these code words mean," said Republican John East of North Carolina...
...Mexico and up to Texas?" asks Professor Nathaniel-Davis, of California's Claremont College. The answer obviously is no. But one does not need to imagine dominoes falling to worry about Mexico's vulnerable southern regions' becoming infected with Nicaraguan-style revolution. If Mexico actually did lurch left, coming under a Communist regime or, more likely, splitting apart into warring fiefs, the U.S. would be confronted by a teeming enemy (pop. 75 million) along its 2,000-mile, currently undefended border. The U.S. would have to divert troops now faced off against the Soviets from Berlin...
...weeks to get his message across to a public that had barely heard of him before the Iowa caucuses (in early February, only 15% of Democratic voters could name him as a candidate). The intense magnification of instant celebrity made even Hart's slightest slip look like a lurch and sent voters scurrying into the safer, more familiar embrace of Mondale...
...Ornstein says the Republicans are better at spending their money. That is, because their funding organizations are tightly centralized, they can carefully target funds towards close races. Democratic funding organizations, by contrast, are more decentralized and those candidates who need large sums of cash are often left in the lurch while runaway winners sometimes find huge chunks of money in their treasuries when their campaigns are over...
...urge for self-destruction has not so characterized the period as the wider compulsions of experimentation and free expression, almost a motor reflex to lurch in new directions. In the years immediately following World War I, Gertrude Stein was offering as much challenge as pity when she branded Hemingway and his contemporaries as the "lost generation." Hemingway took to the bullring, Fitzgerald to the dance floor, where much of his nation joined him. Like Gatsby, most people "believed in the green light" at the end of the dock, despite the disillusionment and damnation around them...