Word: nearer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Will's words that were most chilling as the fiery rioters and explosions marched nearer...
...sure ticket to immortality. John Kennedy Jr. was not in politics (though remarkably, everyone now seems to remember him as headed that way). Just as well, perhaps ? we don?t much like our politicians these days, and private-sector John-John (our name for him) was his father brought nearer and friendlier, the affable scion on a SoHo street corner. And he certainly wasn?t ugly ? indeed, he was handsomer in person, handsomer than his father, handsomer than just about anybody else we liked to think we knew. But what if he hadn?t been? What if he had been...
...Nearer Manhattan's southern tip, pre-schoolers will recognize the waterfront from Donald Crews' picture book Harbor and Hardie Gramatky's tugboat tale Little Toot. Older ones will recall Fraunces Tavern as the setting of Judith Berry Griffin's Phoebe the Spy, the tale of an African-American girl who supposedly saved George Washington's life...
...about anything but govern. From the moment in January that Monica Lewinsky became as famous as Michael Jordan, official Washington and its media auxiliary have been transfixed by the President's sex drive. And for a while, who wasn't? But in time most people moved back to matters nearer at hand--getting ahead, getting settled, getting more sleep, anything but "that." Somehow Congress did not hear. The tobacco deal collapsed; campaign-finance reform died; the patients' bill of rights was shelved. Through it all, the Republicans on Capitol Hill stayed on message. Too bad for them that the message...
...energetic (this was the older choir of supporting tenors and basses who rounded out the four-part treble scale), the Vienna Choir Boys sounded withered and disengaged. They found Haydn's notes, but groped for his meaning. The boys sang the first line, "We praise thee, O God!" ambivalence nearer to pity than joy--and set a lackluster pattern for the remainder of the piece...