Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While this isn't just a two-person race, it's clear Perot doesn't have a chance in hell to win outright. That's because none of America's 41 presidents have been named H. Ross (or even just plain Ross). There are precedents, however, for George (as in Washington) and variations on the Bill theme (as in William Henry Harrison, who--not coincidentally--defeated van Buren in his re-election bid back...
...example, in the vice presidential debate, Quayle accused Gore of writing on page 304 of his book that the government should raise $100 billion in taxes to fund environmental initiatives abroad and in the U.S. That's just plain false. In fact, Gore, in an attempt to show how far the U.S. has gone to address other issues of global concern in the past, says on page 304 of his book that, in today's terms, spending for the Marshall Plan between 1948 and 1951 "would be almost $100 billion a year." That's all. No mention of taxes...
...less incriminating to the Soviet Union's communist rulers were minutes of a March 5, 1940, Politburo meeting making plain that it was Joseph Stalin who ordered the massacre of Polish officers whose bodies were later found in the Katyn Forest. Almost simultaneously with the release of the KAL transcripts, Moscow released documents showing that Stalin signed the minutes, which contained an order for "execution by a firing squad" -- without trial or indictment -- of 25,700 Polish officers and other notables...
...Jamaica Plain resident who allegedly assaulted a Cambridge police officer and a private security guard Monday before he drove away in the officer's unmarked patrol automobile pleaded innocent during his arraignment at Cambridge District Court yesterday...
READING EVE HOROWITZ'S PLAIN JANE (Random House; $20) is like listening to a World Series no-hitter called by a taciturn announcer: the listener knows something terrific is happening out there, but he just can't hear it. The narrator is teenager Jane Singer, second daughter of a gently Jewish family from Cleveland and worshipper of Holden Caulfield. Jane tells about, among others, her mother, who divorces Jane's father and takes up the violin, and her formerly promiscuous sister, who marries an Orthodox doctor and gives birth to a boy Jane jokingly calls "the Little Messiah." Except...