Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wary of inflicting collateral damage on his relationship with the man he feels is Russia's best bet for nurturing a stable, peaceful democracy, Clinton opted last week for a two-stroke response to Moscow's recalcitrance. The dramatic gesture of Lysenko's expulsion -- too little and too late satisfy congressional critics -- was combined with a strongly worded statement affirming that support remains unchanged. "I do not think," declared Clinton, "that the facts of this case undermine in any way, shape or form the policy we have followed the last year toward President Yeltsin and the forces of change...
They tell you that your fate is determined by a fair and impartial computer program. The reality is that housing assigments are actually decided by a bizarre entrail-reading ritual held at the stroke of midnight in Dean Epps' office...
...legal battle. When he arrived at Rochester, he says, he could walk a lap or two on the prison track. Now he's winded after climbing down a flight of stairs. He must sleep virtually sitting up, and gets oxygen all night. He fears that a heart attack or stroke could leave him on life support rather than kill him outright. "Serving a four-year sentence on life support," Murphy shudders. "That's scary." Ironically, his life seeps away just minutes from the Mayo Clinic, home to a world-famous heart- transplant program. "It drives me crazy," he says...
...sable -- that forced broader and more pictorially solid shapes into the paint with which he depicted flesh, helping him compose the body's structure in terms of twisting and displacement. This "Freud effect" is not unlike the quick, coarse expressiveness of Frans Hals, but less benign. A broader stroke didn't diminish the closeness of his inspection. If Velazquez had ever chosen to paint water dribbling from a spout, he might have come up with the sort of brilliant fiction about unstable, passing appearances that Freud achieved in Two Japanese Wrestlers by a Sink, 1983-87. (The "Japanese wrestlers...
...words today, but his meaning is the same. "To get respect, we've got to be free agents," he says. "We won't be taken for granted" -- which means that Jackson himself wants to be taken seriously. Clinton has the power, the smarts and more than enough time to stroke Jackson, and he surely will if he determines he must...