Word: somethingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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At least she's in good company. The shopworn notion that America has been living on credit cards, that the party has to end, that there's no free lunch, and so on and so forth, is not the sole possession of Democratic politicians (who, like Republicans, don't propose...
Maybe the sky won't fall if we don't do something like this. But don't blame Chicken Little if it does. Cluck, cluck.
The no-concessions policy, however, if interpreted literally, would leave an American negotiator nothing to do but continually demand the hostages' unconditional release. In fact, few nations have been that inflexible in such talks. Says Warren Christopher, who helped negotiate the 1981 release of the American hostages held in the...
Something has truly gone awry in 1988, as the election becomes transformed into a handlers' handicap. More than any other race in history, this has become a narrow-gauge contest between two disciplined teams of political professionals. The problem is not the caliber of the candidates, since both Bush and...
Charlie Parker could not resist temptation. Bad ones (drugs, alcohol, women who were not his wife) and good ones (the improvisation no one had ever dared, around the chord progressions few had ever heard) were all the same to him, something he had to try. Bird, the movie based on...