Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...race in July, dramatically boosting Clinton's lead in the polls during the Democratic Convention. Bush helped Clinton by handing his own convention over to right- wing extremists and by running a clumsy, unfocused campaign until he hit his stride in the final weeks. Perhaps the greatest stroke of luck for Clinton is that the economic upturn that could have buried his candidacy never materialized...
...course, this proposal is a bald faced grab for arm votes in the runup to the November election, but that's old news. Much more frightening is that, in a single stroke, Bush has wantonly threatened the stability of the European Community (E.C.) and has seriously undermined the GATT mission of multilateral trade liberalization...
While I was having a stroke, the man from the Registrar's Office explained that "there was a list of all the times and places in your registration packet. You probably just missed it." I knew I hadn't missed it because I am the sort of anal-retentive person who goes through everything in her registration packet and even reads the drug and alcohol policy before signing...
...perhaps the most fascinating aspect of Tim Miller's performance was the effort he made to break down mental boundaries: between himself and the audience as he perched naked on a young man's lap, or asked a woman to stroke his chest, right above the heart. He broke down the boundaries between male and female, in a surrealistic fantasy scene where he visualized himself giving birth (Via the anus) to the bodies of all his dead friends, as he recreated them by talking about them...
This peek into the future is not the result of a single stroke of inspiration from one editor; the idea grew over a year from more modest proposals by several staff members. And then, over the past six months, it was prepared under the direction of editors Edward Jamieson and Stephen Koepp. Vacationing in the Grand Canyon's timeless beauty soon after he began the project, Koepp felt inspired to think about the millennium. "We decided to do this issue now because the '90s are really the advent season of the new millennium. In the relative scale of things...