Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rest teachers. The exceptions include a middle-aged, forgotten actress and a disillusioned, lovelorn man. The stories are sprinkled with pop culture references to the early nineties: several references to Forrest Gump ("`Such a career-ender for Tom Hanks,'" one character remarks), mention of the Gulf War, of O.J. Simpson--even William Kennedy Smith makes it in (remember him?). But these are all part of Moore's sharp adherence to a realistic world within the novel; it is in the characters where she allows her creative abilities to shine...
...Jews have their professions marked out for them. But so do Gentiles. Gentiles are great in certain fields--like coal-mining. Ever seen a Jew coal-miner? With a little light on his yarmulke?" He also manages to take stale issues and still make them mildly amusing. The O.J. Simpson trial for instance, "proved that the innocent until proven guilty rule no longer applies. Now, you're innocent until proven guilty and even after you're proven guilty, you're still innocent." And as for President Clinton, he simply makes references to the "sex maniacs in Martha's Vineyard...
Even Harvard students got into the voting spirit. At the Quincy House polls, 91 out of a registered 749 voted. "That's a record high in the last couple of years that I've been here," says J. Simpson, one of the pollsters working the site. "We've had it as low as 22, although it's usually between...
...Alan Simpson, director of the Institute of Politics and a former Republican senator from Wyoming, chastised Republicans for not being vocal enough in responding to criticism from their Democratic opponents...
...attack unanswered is an attack believed and, worse, an attack believed in," Simpson said...