Word: storm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Gill was busy taking the women's sailingworld by storm in New York, the other members ofthe Crimson sailing team also took to the waterthis weekend in two different New Englandregattas...
...Richard Dooling's brilliant new novel, Brain Storm, Judge Whittaker Stang, a Howard Cosell in robes, scolds an attorney who wants to try the killer of a "disabled person of color" for a hate crime rather than simple murder. The ambitious lawyer thinks that will make him look cuddly and electable in a run for the Senate. Throbbing with scorn, Stang tears into him: "Are we going to impanel a jury to inquire after just what kind of hate this degenerate had running around inside his head? And after we identify all the warped, deviant varietals of hatred...
With Laramie at the eye of the storm, there is something to tell about Wyoming. The cowboy state has its rednecks and yahoos, for sure, but there are no more bigots per capita in Wyoming than in New York, Florida or California. The difference is that in Wyoming there are fewer places to blend in if you're anything other than prairie stock. It is tough business--as Matt Shepard knew, and as his friends all know--to be gay in cowboy country...
...with any good marine fiction, the sea itself is background, scene shifter and, from time to storm-lashed time, main character. But the series swims also on an ocean of wondrous language, in which inept seamen, for instance, are not only "sad brutish grobians," but "froward dirty disreputable rough good-for-nothing disorderly ragabashes and raparees." If there is a serious flaw, it is that since the novels are mostly about men, they are probably mostly for men. O'Brian writes good female characters, but mostly they remain ashore (and one of the best, Maturin's flamboyant wife Diana, dies...
...Democrats aren't in an easy position either. It has long been thought that if they lose badly next month it would make a censure deal more likely. The bloodied Democratic leaders could storm the White House in mid-December, point to all their dead comrades and demand that Clinton accept terms that would bring the matter to a close with another apology, some fines and admission of guilt. But now Democratic leaders have their doubts. The more seats they lose in November, the more liberal the remaining Democratic caucus becomes, and thus the less likely it will...