Word: musts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hopes he still has these days, and here, finally, was his (and Russ Feingold?s) perennially quixotic bill, on the Senate floor for six days of full debate. The spate of pump-priming jeremiads about pork-barrel bills and soft-money corruption that McCain posted on his web site must have seemed utterly appropriate ? but not to Mitch McConnell. "Someone must be corrupt for there to be corruption," McConnell said on Thursday, challenging McCain to come forth with specific charges against individual senators. "How can there be corruption if no one is corrupt? That's like saying the gang...
Lindsay doesn't assault you with his lyrics; there's no screaming into the microphone or straining to reach the high notes. You must reach for the words, straining to find your own meaning in the often-cryptic songs, which drop references to everything from the Brazilian Carnival to the movie The Matrix. The poetry of the lyrics seems to take a back seat to the rhythmic music itself, which is beautifully composed and consistently interesting...
This short synopsis cannot do justice to the work or the performance. We all know how the story must end--we would be foolish to suspect that More would give in. But the reason the audience can be so deeply moved in ways it doesn't completely understand is that the focus is not on political intrigue or what is right or wrong. We care because More is an honorable man in circumstances that are all too real. And the fact that he is the best of what we aspire to be makes his fate even more heartbreaking, even though...
...Bradley's meteoric rise in the past few weeks. A variety of candidates on the primary landscape is both natural and necessary. Furthermore, the Vice President's legendary blandness--though likely more legend than fact--probably inclined the media to throw itself at Bradley's feet. The national media must have been overjoyed when Gore took the cue that Bradley was not only on the cover of Time magazine and in the headlines, but at his heels, and put out the offer for debates...
...many-faceted challenges that face our nation, from U.N. bills and international peace negotiations, to Social Security and budget reform, to the seemingly escalating cycles of hate and violence in America's streets, schools and homes. Politics have become a distraction, not an answer--an escapist reality that must surely scare someone besides...