Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Those close to Gingrich say that's precisely the question he is considering privately, even though last week he resisted appeals by Democrats--and quiet entreaties by some in his own party--to limit the scope and the length of the inquiry. While the Republican faithful are still eager to have Clinton's hide at any cost, the message coming through loudest in the polls is that the public at large is thoroughly sick of the scandal. "He's going to have to make a case why this has to go on ad nauseam--and ad nauseam is a good...
Until then, Gingrich's lieutenants in Congress are moving to quiet the Democrats' cries of unfairness. Last week they reversed themselves to let the Democrats review documents Starr did not submit to Congress; they gave the Democrats subpoena power and, in hopes of calming everyone's nerves, pledged to press Starr for some indication of what he has left to deliver. Said Henry Hyde, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee: "I am doing everything but one-armed pushups to be fair, and I would do those if I could...
Even in this highly polarized environment, as the Republican House prepares to take on a Democratic President, there are some glimmers of detente. Four moderate members of the Judiciary Committee--Democrats William Delahunt and Howard Berman, and Republicans Asa Hutchinson and Lindsey Graham--are holding quiet meetings. From their talks may come the coalition that might devise a way out for everyone...
...those who occupy the few structures should not be chastised for their blessing. And they shouldn't be expected to let everyone in the door. After all the practice of exclusivity in the social gathering is common to everyone. I know quiet a few cliques which would not feel comfortable letting a random football player intrude on their parties. We can hope but we cannot fairly expect that a club will be nice to strangers knocking on its doors...
Since the release of her last album, the Grammy-winning Turbulent Indigo, Joni Mitchell's life has been anything but quiet. She divorced her husband and longtime producer Larry Klein and was reunited with her long-lost daughter, whom she had given up for adoption in the early '60s. Yet on her new, unsatisfying album Taming the Tiger, she seems unable to explore these fields of pain and affection. When she meditates on issues of loss and redemption in the song "Man From Mars," for instance, she doesn't delve at all into this tumult of her recent times. Instead...