Word: messing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through the miracle of literary hindsight, the mess of two decades is foreseen by a sawed-off Christly caricature, Owen Meany, a New Hampshire granite quarrier's son who speaks in capital letters and believes the sacrificial arc of his life has been plotted by God. The novel's narrator is John Wheelwright, Meany's prep-school mate and eventually his leading apostle...
ANYWAY, I've now been at Harvard nearly four years, and I can't tell you how often this desire has gone through my head. There I'll be, sitting at lunch, minding my own business, discussing the Hedda Nussbaum mess or plans for next year or pass the salt, and suddenly some person will come join...
Dick Cheney is perhaps the only good thing to come out of the John Tower mess. The six-term Wyoming Congressman and new Defense Secretary-designate is many of the things Tower was not: a gentlemanly lawmaker whose low-key style belies his tenacity; a conservative who wins plaudits from colleagues in both parties; a straight arrow whose spotless personal history includes a 25-year marriage to his high school sweetheart Lynne Cheney, 47, head of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Cheney, 48, even passes the all-important Sam Nunn character test. The Georgia Democrat hailed...
...Soviet economy in such a mess...
Polsky: "Of course, as in all professional sports, there's a growing demand for getting ahead. In the North American tour, all of the quoters are using steroids. But I figure why mess with a good thing. Does Superman need to lift weights? Does Ronald McDonald need to come up with a new formula for the hamburger? As you can clearly see, there's been no reason to tamper with a gift I've been given...