Word: neatness
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...ending, part "Cape Fear," part just silly, doesn't quite tie everything together into the neat package the writers intend, perhaps because we have seen it before...
...coat holders but with the best and the brightest his country has to offer. He may be constrained by a terrible economy and his enduring faith in the failed ideology that produced it, but Fidel is not finished yet. The trick he is trying to master, however, is a neat trick indeed: modifying Cuba's communist system enough to survive but not so much that he betrays the revolution...
...long run, the stress lines in Gingrich's own party may be a bigger problem for Gingrich than whatever opposition is presented by Bill Clinton, who is attempting the neat trick of saying ``Me too'' and ``I'm not Newt'' in the same breath. In his 81-minute State of the Union address, the President endorsed many Republican ideas but portrayed himself as the defender of common sense and the humane American spirit, tacking just to the left of Gingrich and positioning himself as perhaps the most moderate candidate in 1996. But Democrats took some comfort from signs of dissension...
Just hearing these early recordings, one takes pleasure from Taylor's sheer audacity. He does what all musicians at some point dream of doing: going on stage and banging on the piano with hands and fists, like a film technician simply searching for the neat sound effect. But as Taylor's recordings from the 1960s show, his music is much more profound than that...
...hadn't planned on having strangers paw at his garments, nor on the intense public and press interest in his every casual utterance, nor on the spectacle of the President scrambling to pull himself aboard the Republican tax-cut bandwagon. Gingrich, who classifies most experiences as either neat or weird, pronounced these very weird. Yet he takes his new prominence quite seriously. On the morning after the Hilton speech, a rainy Saturday in mid-December, he met with a dozen of his top advisers and asked them, almost plaintively, "How would you use who I am becoming...