Word: moment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this crucial moment it is not clear that anyone with stature also has the means and the will to nail down a deal. Early last week Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a friend of Starr's, tried to lay the foundation; he spent 20 minutes on the phone with Clinton, and though he didn't speak to Starr, has a good sense of how the guy ticks. Hatch imagined that the country might be spared a year of unnecessary public hanging if Clinton confessed more publicly and contritely than before, if the House agreed to a censure, and if Starr could...
...deeper at work? The truth of forgiveness is that its benefits--a healing sweetness--may accrue more to the forgiver than to the forgiven. If blacks could bring themselves to forgive George Wallace, pain-racked in his wheelchair, then was there not, in the forgiveness, a small but real moment of liberation all around...
...moment though, Nawaz Sharif is hoping for a more earthly kind of intervention: he is in New York City this week at the United Nations, where he will appeal to Bill Clinton to lift economic sanctions--imposed after the nuclear tests--and push the International Monetary Fund into mounting a rescue. As part of the trade-off, Clinton wants him to sign the nuclear test-ban treaty. This may help him get the money he urgently needs, but would anger fundamentalists at home who would see this as capitulation and surrender...
...perhaps the single most telling moment of the Clinton presidency. Right after the Lewinsky story breaks, Clinton is talking with Dick Morris. Clinton confesses that he did "something" and asks for advice. The question then, as always--in fact, the question of Clinton's life--is whether or not to tell the truth...
McInerney's taste has also, amazingly, remained focused on the dazzle of glamour. This is a guy who's been married to a model and has lived with two others, and it still isn't out of his system. "I think for the moment I've exhausted my observations of it," he admits. "But the day I overcome my spectator's interest in beauty, I think I'd better take my pulse...