Word: sun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sitting in what is probably his favorite spot in the world--the narrow balcony between his office and the Senate floor, a place where no voters can pester him, where no one can ask him why he lacks vision--Dole turned his perpetually tanned face to the late winter sun and did what comes naturally: he talked shop. From his lap he plucked a neatly folded piece of paper and ticked off a list of bills. Farm bill. "Have to do that." Line-item veto. "That's something they [the Democrats] want." Small-business regulatory reform. "That's bipartisan. That...
...finals, facing a formidable incumbent President. The new experience has left the Candidate of Experience "somewhat off balance," says a top aide, a little unsure of his next move. So early next month Dole is going to take a week off, fly to Florida, sit in the sun outside his condominium and then gather around him a group of wise men and women to think through the campaign. Just holding such a meeting is unusual for Dole, who has never been quick to seek or take advice. "He has no peers," says a top aide. "He has colleagues...
...memory of artists who had painted them before, by the presence of Antiquity and by the mellow beauty of the light. But to see Nature so authoritatively fused with Culture could also be a misery for a newcomer, for how could you say something new about it? "This sun sheds a light that fills me with despair," Corot moaned in a letter to a friend on the first of his sojourns in Italy (1825-28). "I feel all the impotence of my palette...
...running water have carved deep canyons in the soft sandstone--from thin "slot" canyons 10 feet wide but more than 1,000 feet high, to the magnificent Grand Canyon. Anasazi Indian ruins hide in the sandstone depths. Many species of endangered wildlife live in this wilderness. When the sun sets, the mesas glow fuchsia, gold, violet...
...Littlefield who shrewdly remade the night, adding new hits like Seinfeld and Friends and capping it off with ER, the medical drama that is now TV's No. 1 show. It was Littlefield who found himself "laughing out loud" at a quirky comedy pilot called Third Rock from the Sun that was first brought to ABC; he put it on NBC in January and got credit for discovering the only bona fide new hit of the season. And it was Littlefield who took a big risk last season by moving Frasier, a hit on Thursday night, to Tuesday opposite...