Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days are not nearly as impressive as he promised they would be. Moderates may be enraged that the illusion of a New Democrat evaporated, revealing a tax-and-spend liberal. And liberals may be disappointed that the fights they have pursued for twelve frustrating years cannot end with the stroke of a presidential...
...likes its participatory democracy in tiny slices. But none of the participants was cynic enough to turn down the access. Each spoke for three minutes and joined one of 12 panel chats with task-force members. (Hillary Rodham Clinton, their chief, was attending her father, who had suffered a stroke...
...vegetables, you'll get a stroke...
Simultaneously, Clinton got a stroke of luck when Supreme Court Justice Byron White, 75, on Friday announced that he will retire after the court's current term ends in early summer. White had not been one of the more memorable justices, but he had provided a swing vote that pushed the court in a conservative direction on such issues as abortion and church-state relations. His retirement will give Clinton an opportunity to appoint a Justice (New York Governor Mario Cuomo? Legal scholar Laurence Tribe?) who might help turn the court in a far more liberal direction. And the President...
WHEN A GOOD STRAIGHT PLAY IS TURNED into a musical, the basic question is whether music adds anything. In the case of Arthur Kopit's WINGS, a 1978 succes d'estime about a former pilot and air-show wing walker whose mind has been frazzled by a stroke, the answer is an emphatic yes -- sometimes. In the new version off-Broadway, Jeffrey Lunden's score provides evocatively dissonant metaphors for what is going on inside the afflicted woman's head. But when Arthur Perlman's book and lyrics guide her into banal emotional bonds with a therapist and fellow patients...