Word: narrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Often Kahlo (Helen Schneider) is painted as a cardboard caricature in order to better serve narrow agendas: agonizingly disabled, Mexican, communist, bisexual, a woman oppressed by a famous painter husband. Frida expertly avoids exploiting the politically correct factors that have posthumously made Frida Kahlo a pop culture celebrity...
...will be up to a new jury to decide whether George was guilty of criminal perjury. Steven Kirk, the original foreman, said his fellow jurors had found George evasive, duplicitous and dissembling; they could not agree on conviction because they chose to wrestle with the narrow issue of George's "technical" responsibility to Congress. But Gillen used expert testimony and thousands of newly declassified documents to prove his point: that key officials of the CIA had blindly served the White House in circumventing Congress by providing aid to the Nicaraguan contras in defiance of the Boland amendment. Concedes...
...Patrick Buchanan's darkly apocalyptic speech Monday night all but raised the specter of race war, only to be followed minutes later by Ronald Reagan's soaring tribute to Bush and America's future. Wednesday, Barbara Bush gently prodded the conservative delegates to broaden their party's sometimes narrow definition of family, while warm-up act Marilyn Quayle championed a zero-tolerance approach to "family values." But it was Mary Fisher, the HIV-positive daughter of a top G.O.P. fund raiser, who held the Astrodome rapt with her insistence that AIDS victims "have not earned cruelty and do not deserve...
...detailed catalog -- a benchmark in the study of black American art -- do open a door for Johnson's entry into that history, even though Powell's claim that Johnson was a kind of black Marsden ; Hartley, discovering full identification with his people through folk culture, passing from a "narrow and skewed" Eurocentric primitivism to a fully integrated "black, populist aesthetic," seems overblown. What matters, however, is that he once was lost, and now is found...
Abortion is too narrow a cause to rally the old Reagan coalition. "It stands out now," says conservative analyst Burton Pines, "because there is so little else to galvanize the right. But it's really marginal." Pines is one of many ideologues who are cool to Bush -- "We'll vote for him holding our noses," he says -- and wonder where the next Reagan will come from. One subject of covert conversation in Houston is whether the conservative cause would be better served by a Bush victory or defeat this year. Another is which personality has the best chance of uniting...