Word: preware
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...take over security, and Muslims would start going back home. When Grbavica was handed over on March 19, the reunification of Sarajevo was complete, and the occasion should have marked a tremendous achievement for the Dayton negotiations. The noblest dream of the agreements was to restore Sarajevo to its prewar condition as a proud cosmopolitan city where Muslims, Serbs and Croats all lived together. But since the peace was signed, the Serbs have been fleeing Grbavica and other suburbs, looting and burning the buildings they have left behind. Now they are virtually all gone. Sarajevo has been reunified; its people...
...late as 1940, her father would dress up as the Fuhrer and ring the Franks' doorbell for a shock and a giggle; he later died in the Bergen-Belsen death camp. Goslar and a dozen others weave the tapestry of their lives and Anne's, from the blithe prewar days to the horror of Bergen-Belsen. There, Anne and her sister met two young friends they had known at another camp. "Oh, how wonderful that you are here!" they all shouted--girls happy to be reunited, even in history's hellhole...
Vidal is snobby about his roots. He was raised in prewar Washington in the seigneurial home of his grandfather Thomas Pryor Gore, the blind Senator from Oklahoma (Vice President Al Gore is his cousin). Vidal's mother was a histrionic alcoholic, so early on he retreated into the world of books and language. He attended the exclusive St. Albans prep school and served as first mate on a supply ship during World War II, after which, at age 20, he published his first novel, Williwaw...
...RATTLE DICK LUGAR BY bringing up nuclear throw weights or prewar Serbian history. But just broach the charisma issue and the presidential candidate is on the defensive. Pundits hint that Lugar is charismatically challenged, that his political persona is as flat as an Indiana cornfield, that he is, in short, too bland to be President. "Gee," Dick Lugar says, "I know that people say I'm far too low-key, even that"--and here a brief, sad smile--"I'm dull...
...Once this dogma took hold, Americans lost interest in most new European art; the New York School pushed it off the radar screen, and it apparently lost the mandate of art history. The new, swelling museum culture in the U.S. tended to ignore it. In the early 1950s the prewar masters remained-Picasso, Matisse, Braque, Lager, Miro-but who was going to pay much attention to insipid French abstractionists like Hans Hartung or Alfred Manessier in the face of what Jackson Pollock or Willem de Kooning were doing...