Word: narrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...saga of Newt Gingrich's ethics suddenly resembles a brawl between blindfolded boxers who flail away so wildly that each lands a haymaker on his own jaw. About the only certainty is that Gingrich's narrow re-election as Speaker of the House last Tuesday...
...doggedly accept the burdens of their position. The show is languidly paced and less wide reaching than the Simpsons in its comedy; absent is the nonstop barrage of cultural references ranging from Buckminster Fuller to Sammy Davis Jr. King of the Hill mines its humor instead from the narrow but brilliantly honed universe of Hank's no-nonsense populism and his coterie of dim-witted pals who fixate on cars and conspiracy theories and refer to the recently deposed U.N. Secretary General as "Boutros Boutros-Ghali Ghali...
...already set. But now, both sides are playing for leverage on "final status" issues like the future of Jerusalem, Jewish settlements, Palestinian refugees and borders. So the West Bank timetable, which Arafat insists must remain at September 1997, as agreed to by Netanyahu's predecessors, has become the narrow gateway issue through which any agreement must pass...
...finally raised his hand and chastised us for being stereotypically self-centered Americans, concerned only with our narrow domestic interests and not with the wider world...
...Antonioni's La Notte (1961), he moved like a man in perpetual postcoital ennui, elevating spiritual passivity to a metaphysic and a fashion statement. "Mastroianni" became a kind of emotional cologne for the modern male. And no one wore the style as elegantly as he: the dark suit, the narrow tie, the eyes of a man who's been up three nights straight doing things that would excite anyone but him. These art films won international success because of his effortless allure. La Notte, with its blank walls and arid stares, was withal an essay in star quality. We could...