Word: might
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Cela's flippant disdain for authority -- of whatever sort -- earned him the respect of exiled Spaniards who might otherwise have excoriated him for his allegiance in the civil war. In later years his fierce independence won increasing regard. He was among those, after Franco's death, who were asked to write a new Spanish constitution. Beyond that, his best novels, with their violent, poetic hyper-realities, affirmed a tradition that stretches from Cervantes to Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
...only for women who can afford it. But if he made federal funds available for the poor, he risked alienating his right-to-life constituency. Bush said he did not want to "compound a violent act with the taking of an unborn life" but acknowledged that "to some there might be a contradiction there." Democrats attacked the decision, but so did Republicans. Said Republican Senator Bob Packwood: "We are on the wrong side on the issue...
...declared after his election by the self-governing orchestra. Salonen, whose photogenic, blond good looks are sure to be an asset in image-conscious Los Angeles, is even more adventurous. "The Salonen appointment in Los Angeles indicates an orchestra possibly trying to change the image of what an orchestra might be about," says Leonard Slatkin, 45, the innovative conductor of the St. Louis Symphony...
...Maria Giulini, Sir Georg Solti and the other gerontocrats who dominated the musical scene after World War II were able to last so long was that there was simply no seasoned competition: the conflict killed off a whole generation of Europeans and some Americans, from whose ranks their successors might ordinarily have emerged. Partly as a result, the repertoire stagnated as Karajan and his contemporaries grew increasingly out of touch...
...lamely that "I never made a written statement" about the episode, but he did not bother denying the Interior Minister's account of his oral one. At another point he said he had been "joking" in his story to police. Moscow gossips speculated that the man of the people might also be a man of the bottle who had been on his way to bestow the roses -- and perhaps other attentions -- on one of his more ardent female supporters. Said a Soviet journalist: "He started out like Huey Long and he's ending up like Gary Hart...