Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FIRST COMES THE DOCTOR; THEN THE PRIEST; THEN THE undertaker; and finally, Sotheby's. When you come down to it, auctioneering is a lugubrious trade. It thrives on death, divorce and debt, and the pink, deferential Brit in the now empty Park Avenue living room is to upper-class America what buzzards once were to luckless prospectors in Arizona. When the famous die, the salesmen perk up--but the trouble is that the really good art and antiques do not necessarily belong to the really famous. Ergo, find a way of using their fame to endorse their possessions, and turn...
...Edward Starkey, president of the Ecumenical Council of San Diego Country, which represents about 100 churches, in reference to an atheist group's reserving a city park for Easter services before the Christian groups that usually hold services there could...
...lawyer during his White House stint. In the Administration's first few months, Foster seemed increasingly beaten down by controversies, especially the White House's inept handling of the staff firings in the travel office. On the afternoon of July 20, 1993, Vince Foster was found in Fort Marcy Park, Virginia, dead from a gunshot wound...
...Imagine that! And when he is not gallantly defending his 17% solution, Forbes shows signs of having "been bitten by the campaign bug," in the words of Republican strategist Ed Rollins. As though hiding a guilty pleasure, Forbes protests, "I would not portray it as going to an amusement park each day." Yet he is relishing the roller coaster and becoming much more assured as a candidate. The fellow who once shied away from crowds now eagerly wades into them. When leaving the Holiday Inn in Albany last week, after pumping the hands of supporters, he made a gracious detour...
...barroom xenophobia on "Jose," his multipurpose Mexican bashee. He says, "Listen, Mr. Hashimoto [the Japanese Prime Minister]," as if he meant "Mr. Tojo." Buchanan is almost as brilliant at populist bullying as George Wallace was in the days when the Alabaman ranted at "pointy-headed intellectuals who can't park their bicycles straight." After reviewing Buchanan's quotations over the years, even one who loathes political correctness and hate-speech codes is likely to start seeing their usefulness. In any case, if it quacks like a bigot, then it probably should not be a presidential candidate...