Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to believe, watching a good deal of the freakish imagery in Cremaster 2, that Barney is serious about bees morphing into male bodies oozing sexually with honey; about a seance medium whose face is pierced with rivets. But that is one of the most intriguing things about him: in an age of slick ironists cool beyond belief, Barney is a dead-earnest symbolist plummeting through the rabbit hole of his own nutty logic. You may not get everything that you see. And certainly you may not enjoy it. But it fascinates all the way down...
...something the director felt good about doing," an intelligence official said of CIA chief GEORGE TENET's decision to strip his predecessor, JOHN DEUTCH, of his security clearance. "This is someone he worked for, who is a friend and a mentor." But, he adds, "what transpired was a fairly serious breach of the rules regarding handling classified information." Deutch had allowed highly classified material to course through his unsecured home computer--a big no-no. Immediate comparisons were made to the case of nuclear weapons scientist WEN HO LEE, a suspect in China's apparent theft of data...
...were fired, and bounced away harmlessly six hours before the blaze erupted. The mainstream press, well accustomed to the big and small incompetencies of the Washington bureaucracies, will likely believe it. A significant slice of the republic will not. And some of them ?- self-styled neo-minutemen with a serious beef against King Sam and the arsenal to back it up ?- may well lock, load and decide to do something about...
...backwoods militia types (who love to talk about a tape that supposedly shows the FBI using a flamethrower on the compound) and of course Republicans. Thursday, with Republican supersleuth Dan Burton champing at the bit in the House, and Senate FBI watchdog Charles Grassley calling Coulson?s admission "a serious development in terms of further erosion of the FBI's credibility," a suitably peeved Attorney General Janet Reno hurried to get the official ducks back in a row. "The important thing is to keep going until you get to the truth," she told reporters ?- and it?s apparently just...
...Most at risk to develop serious psychological problems after the attack were those who were seriously injured or who had a family member injured or killed ?- and those who refused to think about the incident. And that may be what science gets out of the Oklahoma City tragedy: an idea of whom to help first. For grief researchers, the beaches of Normandy were a laboratory; so were the jungles of Vietnam. The only American war is at home now, and sporadic. Oklahoma City is a horrible way to learn, but for tragedy there are no in-house experiments, just outside...