Word: skepticism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last, a post-control-freak third way seems within reach in New York City. Suddenly, even a skeptic can imagine that 42nd Street stretching west from Times Square -- America's most famous city block, glamorous turned squalid and now comatose -- might really be on the verge of revivification. Of course, there have been grand plans before: in 1954 LIFE magazine said a new antisleaze law meant that "42nd Street will probably never again" be as tawdry as it was then (which was considerably less tawdry than it became...
...Night Manager. For starters, there is the title character, who is (as usual) a slippery outsider, a "refined impostor" in search of a conscience (or a mission at least), and like nearly all Le Carre protagonists, half German and half English (which is to say, half romantic and half skeptic). A night manager in discreet hotels, Pine is, by definition, a "close observer" of people, a spy -- or novelist -- without a cause. In this instance his eye is trained largely on a glamorous slice of the "English leisure class": a jet-setting arms dealer, Dicky Roper, who is charming enough...
...April, she had learned the ropes. There is a rule on the Hill that if you can't explain it, you can't pass it. When she briefed the committee, the clarity of her pitch opened a few eyes. Says committee chief of staff Lawrence O'Donnell, a confirmed skeptic on Hillary's efforts: "I haven't been in the company of anyone that made me suspend my disbelief on health care until today. I'll come to my senses, but for the moment she was in the room, I believed she could...
Instead of the Artist as Star, we have the Artist as Victim, or as Victim's Representative. The key to the show, the skeptic might say, is its inclusion of the tape of the police bashing of Rodney King taken by George Holliday, a plumbing-parts salesman not known for his artistic aspirations before or since. The '93 Biennial is anxious to present all its artists as witnesses, just like Holliday. Witnesses to what? To their own feelings of exclusion and marginalization. To a world made bad for blacks, Latinos, gays, lesbians and women in general...
...Exchequer, Norman Lamont, to resign, and even among the government's critics there was a forlorn sense that the crisis had been beyond the ability of anyone in Britain to control. "It wouldn't matter if you put King Kong in the Treasury," complained Tory M.P. and Euro-skeptic Sir Teddy Taylor. "The ^ Germans control our economy...