Word: states
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...curiously boyish, he was both autodidact and polymath--his curiosity and his information equally boundless. To a film critic he might recommend some recondite movie that he had caught but that the latter had carelessly missed. To a filmmaker desperately behind schedule, he might offer to share his state-of-the-art editing suite to speed things up. To a harried studio executive, he might provide an evening of baseball nostalgia, centered on the New York Yankees, beloved since Kubrick's Bronx boyhood. Maybe Warren Beatty caught the delicious dynamic of those encounters best when he observed, "You always assumed...
...doubt we will ever see Senator Clinton represent New York State, but I would not be surprised to see Senator Rodham serving in that office. WILLIAM R. PRITCHETT Midland, Mich...
With her experience meeting the leaders of great and small powers worldwide, Hillary Clinton might be the candidate par excellence for a future Secretary of State. MARTIN FREUND New York City...
...from being a freedom fighter, Kurdish radical leader Abdullah Ocalan is a vicious hoodlum [WORLD, March 1]. Greece, which arranged to sneak this international terrorist into Kenya, should be put on the U.S. State Department list of terrorist countries. Greece has nurtured the ideology of Ocalan's Kurdistan Workers' Party cutthroats. ILYAS BOTAS Paterson...
...member of the Bellofatto family, I am responding to the eulogy for Sean Sellers written by Bianca Jagger [NOTEBOOK, Feb. 15]. [Jagger described Sellers' execution for murder, stating that he suffered from a mental disorder.] Before murdering his parents, Sellers at the age of 16 killed Robert Bowers, a convenience-store clerk who wouldn't sell him beer. Sellers later murdered his own mother Vonda Bellofatto and his stepfather Paul Lee Bellofatto in their sleep. It was not until after Sellers' final bid for appeal was turned down by the state of Oklahoma and his capital-punishment sentence became inevitable...