Word: patrician
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plot is a gimmick in two brisk acts. In the first we meet six characters in search of a murder: Tony, a flamboyantly gay barber; Barbara, a tough-doll beautician; Eddie, a shady dealer in antiques; the patrician Mrs. Shubert; and two other salon customers who are soon revealed as detectives. They're staking out the building's upstairs tenant, Isabel Czerny, a reclusive concert pianist. Sure enough, the unseen Isabel is murdered. O.K.-whodunit...
...Whitman is enjoying approval ratings that often move north of 60%, in large part because of her canny ability to build coalitions and deal head on with crises, always with a patrician air. Though her time in public office has been relatively short--she first won election in 1982 as a county commissioner--her political education is of the highest class. Her father Webster Todd, a building contractor whose projects included Rockefeller Center, was influential in the presidential candidacies of Eisenhower and Nixon. Her mother was a fund raiser for George Bush. Her husband and adviser John Whitman...
...political reincarnation. Since his party's dismal showing in the November elections, Clinton has moved deliberately toward the center, and last Thursday night's speech was his most dramatic course correction yet. Clinton made several proposals last week similar to ones he criticized Bush for making when the patrician Texan was trying to save his presidency. The G.O.P. enjoyed the show. Said Haley Barbour, the chairman of the Republican Party: "President Clinton shares with the hummingbird the amazing ability to turn 180 degrees in a wink...
...rather than Republican Michael Huffington. Ross Perot extended his vendetta against the Bush family across the generations by backing Texas Governor Ann Richards over First Son George W. Bush. In Pennsylvania, Teresa Heinz, widow of Republican Senator John Heinz, dismissed G.O.P. upstart Rick Santorum in favor of the more patrician Democrat Harris Wofford, calling Santorum "short on public service and even shorter on accomplishments." In the G.O.P., at least, the center would not hold...
...fake green card and driver's license. So she traded her Hermes scarf for some urban camouflage -- in this case, a gabardine pantsuit -- and went shopping in MacArthur Park, a crime-infested mini-mall for phony immigration documents near downtown Los Angeles. Never mind that the patrician politician went trailing a swarm of agents in dark suits; the fake IDs were hers for the asking. "They would have cost anywhere from $10 to $60," she says, "and I could have had them within the hour...