Word: state
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Giuliani is who he is. Which may be part of the reason the mayor, despite growing Rudy fatigue, now leads Clinton among such crucial voter blocs as suburbanites and women. The numbers will change, her advisers promise, after she declares her candidacy and moves to the state early next year. But sometimes you wonder whether Clinton should start believing those rumors...
Amid all the angry disbelief, Egyptian officials had good reason to downplay the suicide theory. It invites speculation that fundamentalist terror groups may have penetrated the state airline. If FBI agents were to conduct interviews on Egyptian soil, it could arouse anti-American nationalists. The idea that a crazed pilot deliberately crashed an EgyptAir plane could wound the country's important tourist industry just as it is recovering from a terrorist massacre that killed 62 two years...
...shrimp-export decision. Nor are they worried about the human chain of hand-holding clergy and parishioners who will surround the delegates' reception Monday to plead for Third World debt relief. But scores of "radical jeerleaders" are practicing their choreographed cheers in church basements: "Smash the state/ Let's liberate!" Four Molotov cocktails were lobbed into an empty Gap store in downtown Seattle this month, Gap being a focus of antisweatshop protests. No wonder the city has budgeted $6 million for police overtime and is stockpiling tear gas. "If there are rowdy guests, we plan to treat them that...
This is the point at which greatness enters Moore's performance. Sarah will die--of tuberculosis--in this state of uncertainty, but with both her husband and her former lover attending her deathbed--touched, perhaps, by some dim, unspoken understanding of Sarah's acceptance that grace has befallen her. The final irony is that it is the worldly Maurice who will be given the last piece of the puzzle, near-irrefutable evidence of her saintliness...
...getting harder," he realizes. "One ceases to be surprised that what used to be as hard as hard can be grows harder yet." Disgrace is a mini-opera without music by a writer at the top of his form. Its bleak vision lingers, shattering any hope of a redemptive state of grace...