Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...TALK about heartless employers and greedy corporations, Republicans generally grumble about Democrats waging class war. At least most Republicans do. And then there's Pat Buchanan, warmonger. "Executioners" is what he calls employers like AT&T that lay off thousands of workers. "These companies are like creatures in Jurassic Park," he told TIME last week. And what will his campaign do? "Stand up for the working men and women whose jobs are threatened by unfair trade deals done for the benefit of huge corporations," he told a cheering crowd in Manchester, New Hampshire...
ANDREW LAMAR ALEXANDER was born in 1940 in Maryville, Tennessee, an aluminum-mill town beside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. His parents, both educators, saw that their son and two daughters were reading before they entered kindergarten. When Lamar was a schoolchild, his days began at 4 a.m., the hour he rose to deliver newspapers. He had piano practice at 6 a.m., plus after-school sports and choir practice. Weekends were for church and Scouts and chores...
More than 3,000 people showed up at a huge ballroom in the Omni Shoreham Hotel for a "Valentine's Book Party" for Hillary Clinton. There was no contribution required; in fact, nothing was asked other than that you wait an hour to park your car and check your coat, and forgo dinner and Thursday night Must-See TV (it was a Friends and Seinfeld kind of crowd: no one seemed much interested in the G.O.P. debate). Clinton gave a short talk and sold a huge stack of books...
...Picnic, as in real life, William Holden is every woman's dream: "'Is this what the women of America want?' asks a Hollywood producer. 'You mean...that the great lover of our time is a civic booster who recently served on the Los Angeles Park Commission?...No blue suede shoes, no moldy sweatshirts. He doesn't walk down Sunset Boulevard with an ocelot. He doesn't even have a Filipino houseboy. This is a movie star? He goes to P.T.A. meetings. He has been married to the same woman for 15 years. His swimming pool is not in the shape...
...having your life completely planned out in your senior year is acceptable and perhaps might even lead you to do something gratifying you never would have thought of otherwise. Second, there is more to life than your career: family, friends, cooking, playing soccer, throwing around a frisbee in the park. Third, wherever the hamster wheel eventually leads you, you have to like what you're doing, or otherwise getting there was futile--no matter how much money you have or how well your colleagues know your name...