Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...duties. The media's treatment of President Clinton makes it clear that being in government these days requires a much stricter code of conduct than it did even twenty-five years ago. Nor does this code apply only to office-holders. The non-legislative approval process experienced by Bobby Ray Inman, Lani Guinier, John Tower, and others shows that trying to get into the top offices can be just as hard as being there...
...Erdrich is herding her large cast toward a fifth novel that will pull things together, the reader is entitled to a bit of head scratching. Over most of its course, the new book seems to focus on a love affair that young Lipsha Morrissey never quite convinces beautiful Shawnee Ray that she should dive into with him. (His failure may have something to do with an unsuccessful vision quest during which he is sprayed by a talking skunk.) But Erdrich loses interest in Lipsha's love troubles, and we hear nothing more. Similarly, a chapter in which Lyman Lamartine, Lipsha...
...reservation life does little to preserve the strengths of Native American culture and is a cruel hothouse for its weaknesses. If the present novel needs a map and compass, Erdrich losing her way is preferable to most other writers steering a straight course. Here is her description of Shawnee Ray's busybody mother Zelda: "She should have had more children or at least a small nation to control. Instead, forced narrow, her talents run to getting people to do things they don't want to do for other people they don't like." Lipsha, as the novel begins, adrift...
When BOBBY RAY INMAN withdrew himself from consideration for Secretary of Defense, he cited columnist William Safire and Senator Bob Dole, among others, as the causes of his vexation. But there was one antagonist he didn't mention: Senator TRENT LOTT. A source familiar with Inman's thinking says Lott was one of the chief reasons why Inman pulled out; he believed the Mississippi Republican was marshaling forces on the Senate Armed Services Committee against him. Lott, however, says he was for Inman all along...
...make matters even more clear, the Raincoats traded members with the only all-female punk band that had been around longer than they had, the influential and aggressive Slits; they also covered the Kinks' "Lola," adding another layer of gender confusion to Ray Davies' already mixed-up sexual world. The Raincoats' first record therefore gets attention as a kind of pop-music ecriture feminine, and the articulate Raincoats themselves as the distant foremothers of Bikini Kill...