Word: minds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months of lies and the famous finger wag somehow amounted only to an admission that he "gave a false impression." As for defending answers as "legally accurate," most people think something is accurate or it is not. The idea of establishing some new zone of semitruth immediately brings to mind another phrase, the one that still haunts Al Gore: "no controlling legal authority." That too was one supplied by lawyers. This may have been a necessary way of avoiding admitting perjury, but the whole speech said the opposite: I was lying then, I'm telling the truth...
...money out of stocks -- and into bonds -- fast enough. British, German and French exchanges all tumbled more than 4 percent in early trading, before word from New York helped to recoup around half those losses. Still, nobody is able to put the ruble's woes completely out of their mind. The price of gold is now the lowest it's been since 1980, as traders fearfully anticipate a flood of cheap Russian bullion. And the Swiss franc seems about the only safe currency left on the continent...
...Dillard drove across the Cascades in central Washington to watch and write about a "Total Eclipse" of the sun. She connected the eclipse to the mind's fragility: "A loosened circle of evening sky...was an abrupt black body out of nowhere; it was a flat disc; it was almost over the sun. That is when there were screams. At once this disc of sky slid over the sun like a lid. The sky snapped over the sun like a lens cover. The hatch in the brain slammed...
...Broadway in Margulies' two-character exercise, Collected Stories, she plays a celebrated short-story writer and professor who takes a talented graduate student under her wing. Does the relationship get thorny? Think All About Eve. If the bones too frequently show through the flesh of Margulies' formulaic play, never mind. Hagen--now bawdily arrogant, now anguished with betrayal--is ferociously riveting...
Remember last week, when word broke that versions of Microsoft's and Netscape's e-mail programs were afflicted with a nasty glitch, and we advised you to buy a "bug-free" copy of Qualcomm's Eudora? Umm, never mind! It turns out that the latest iterations of the popular Eudora Pro (4.0 and above) have an equally gaping security hole that could let bad guys get into your PC. If you use it, be sure to get the patch at eudora.com...