Word: shadowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...least until Congress puts the finishing touches on the budget in the fall, but the person upon whom most of the speculation has devolved is Sandy Berger, the National Security Council chief who missed getting the job last year by a whisker of his perpetual five o'clock shadow. Aides say Berger is much more of a disciplinarian than Bowles or Leon Panetta, and unafraid to give Clinton bad news with the bark off. An Asia specialist who enjoys the support of the First Lady, Berger is also intensely political and was one of Clinton's first backers...
...working with Labour)--more sophisticated survey techniques than were then common in Britain. "I'd say the most valuable things we've learned from the Americans are the need to respond instantly to any and all attacks and the imperative to stay 'on message,'" says Gordon Brown, Labour's shadow chancellor of the exchequer. "There's been a huge back-and-forth. It's been very productive...
...wants to be. The "queen of hip-hop soul" isn't known for upscale glamour; she earned her rep for her edge, her streetiness, her willingness to keep it real. On the cover photo of her 1992 debut album What's the 411?, her face is shrouded in shadow, gangsta-girl tough. Blige, back then, was all about combat boots and leather jackets; she could drink with the best of them, curse with the worst of them. But at a recent photo shoot in a studio in New York City, Blige traded haughtiness for haute couture--her hair...
There are two Americas: the original American Republic we know from history books and personal experiences, and the subterranean shadow Republic that has been taking shape since the turbulent '60s. It is this struggle between the dying First Republic and the burgeoning Second Republic, not the end of our millennium, that is haunting the American people. The only way to save our national sanity is to acknowledge the existence of the Second Republic so we can deal realistically with the problems that led to its birth. And the sooner the better! MARC RANGEL New York City...
...second half of the concert consisted of Brahms' Symphony No. 3 in F Major. Throughout his life, Brahms struggled with writing symphonies. In the early stages of his career, he felt as if he wrote in the shadow of Beethoven's symphonic tradition yet was not worthy of it. Brahms' first symphony is even popularly referred to as "Beethoven's Tenth." By the time he began work on his third symphony, he had developed a style of his own that would come to represent the essence of the Romantic movement...