Word: phrase
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton was just plain mad. On Saturday night he and his Camp David houseguests watched The Boxer, a dense drama of personal and political pain in Northern Ireland. Then he got on the phone with the trashman, James Carville, who in 1992 ran the war room and commandeered the phrase "speed kills" to express the belief that when you get attacked, you should fire back immediately. Carville does not have much contact with Clinton from week to week, much less day to day, but he is an almost mystical checkpoint for Clinton when it comes to counterattacking. Clinton wondered what...
...aide who worked out the deal, Browning says, was White House deputy counsel Bruce Lindsey. Back in Arkansas, it was chief of staff Betsey Wright who quieted the "bimbo eruptions"--a phrase she coined--so the Clinton show could go on. Last week's filings assert that Lindsey has taken on that role in the White House. Independent counsel Ken Starr is so interested in Lindsey that he has called him before the grand jury three times in two months. The relentlessly low-profile Lindsey has always been an enigmatic figure, best known for playing late-night games of hearts...
...makes it stand out. However, thesecond half of the song does not completelycanonize Shakur, but rather shows his dual nature,as both a hero and a criminal. "Are you arevolutionary/are you playing thug/are you all thecontradictions/...well the truth is that youalways like to play with fire" is a phrase fromthe song which clearly shows that Shakur was acomplex human being. The profundity and beauty of"What Must I do Now?"--as well as the underlyingbitterness--makes it the best song on the album.The second half of "What Must I do Now?" is alsoreprised at the very...
...Then there is the grandeur," said Toni Morrison. Sure, the sentence is just one of many from Chapter One of Morrison's new novel Paradise, read by the author to an audience of several hundred in Faneuil Hall last Wednesday night. This particular phrase is unique, though, because through it the novelist perfectly encapsulated the listener's experience of her own reading...
...coming weeks Yeltsin's handlers will get even more mileage out of their new stock phrase: "The president is working at home with his papers." In other countries this might indicate imminent retirement and the readying of materials for a presidential archive. Not in Russia. "Despite his feeble health, Yeltsin's supporters are talking about him running again in 2000," says Quinn-Judge. "And he's sending out signals that he's not averse to the idea." Of course he isn't. He still has too much fun at those Politburo sessions with Comrade Brezhnev...