Word: standing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Demy seems to stress the over-welming aura of these females by a variety of visual tricks. Several times the women are dressed in the same garish material as the walls before which they stand, so that their bodies appear to disappear and their heads and arms seem to bob like other-worldly banshees in midair. Visual indulgences like these are the delight of Demy, whose Cherbourg is a radioactive collection of tuqouise, yellow, red and lime-green. These colors radiate from the outsides and insides of the buildings and on the clothing of every man, woman, and child...
...duly reported on campaign-finance documents after the election. "Any suggestion that my writing four checks was intended to mislead bank regulators is simply false," he said, after emerging suddenly from the West Wing and intercepting reporters on the White House driveway. He will take the witness stand sometime this summer; Clinton will testify by videotape...
Case studies in their paper form, long the stand-by of the HBS curriculum, have been a way to give students the opportunity to simulate real-world problems through reading and class discussion. Recently, these case studies have been put on-line or on CD-ROMs making the simulation far more real by requiring increased interaction and participation by the student...
...well as the practical sense. With that in mind, Bill Clinton was elected to the presidency in 1992 as a "New Democrat," stressing responsibility as well as rights. What set him apart form Democrats such as Michael Dukakis, Walter Mondale and Jimmy Carter had less to do with his stand on particular issues than with his ability, at least at moments, to transcend the terms of the conventional politics. Dukakis learned what happens to a Democratic nominee who runs with a Liberal label. When he told the 1988 convention that the election would be about "competence," not "ideology," Republicans pounced...
...Army Captain Max Cleland: "[He] plays that wheelchair up to the nth degree. He just shows people that wheelchair going and coming...It's certainly worth a lot of points." Yes, points for Cleland and minus points for Broun. Cleland is a triple amputee, wounded in Vietnam, who cannot stand or walk...