Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reason for their existence," says TIME's Paul Gray. "The husband in Helping who falls off the wagon tries to defend himself by attacking his religious wife: ?Sometimes I try to imagine what it?s like to believe that the sky is full of care and concern.? The remark wounds, as intended, but the speaker and all the sufferers in this remarkable collection know it is a cry of pain...
...other entitlements. He called for a panel that would come to grips with the Consumer Price Index, which most economists believe overstates inflation, and government checks. That was a revolutionary statement in a city notorious for its fear of offending the seniors lobby. But this time Lott's remark was not met with the usual partisan fire. Clinton called it a "good, constructive suggestion" and dispatched his chief of staff and budget director to drum up support for it among lawmakers and editorial boards...
...into perfervid propaganda spectacles. "I support wholeheartedly that Beijing opera should be reformed," he said. "But I just do not feel like watching these plays." The croissant lover who had once commented that no one could be truly civilized without having dined out was despised by radicals. His feline remark became evidence against him. Along with fascism, treason and a raft of other crimes, Deng was accused by some Red Guards of promoting...
...amazement that anyone so young could write a publishable novel seems slightly condescending, of a piece with the sentiment behind a chauvinistic remark of Samuel Johnson's: "A woman's preaching is like a dog walking on its hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." In fact, most of Necessary Madness is done very well indeed, at least within the restrictions of its genre. Crowell keeps her plot moving briskly along, and her narrator gets off some good lines. Looking back on her teenage fling with punk fashions, she notes...
...weeks that followed, I couldn't get Senator McConnell's remark out of my mind, particularly when I was eating yogurt. Although just about every morning's paper was bringing another allegation of influence-peddling blatant enough to make Boss Tweed blush, the estimable John McCain had been able to attract only one other Republican Senator to the campaign-finance reform bill that he is co-sponsoring with Senator Russell Feingold. With a number of Democratic Senators also reluctant, McCain-Feingold was increasingly spoken of as a dead issue...