Word: sweep
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...self-aware--a few of them exist--know they're only going through the motions. In 1964, for example, even Barry Goldwater's fabulists knew they were fighting the good fight and little more. In years like this, the scent of triumph is palpable. Following their 1994 midterm sweep, the Republicans are salivating. They believe their prescriptions command wide appeal: smaller government, lower taxes and fewer, less costly social programs. They're confident as well that the President's attempts to retard their march will fail or be perceived as obstructionist and that his embrace of some G.O.P. nostrums will...
...looks lovely as the irresistible beauty Yelena but fails to wring any pathos from her realization that in life she has "always played a minor role." As the professor, Werner Klemperer produces a small fool when we long for a big one-there's a panoramic sweep missing in his windy fatuities. James Fox is competent as Astrov, and at times genuinely moving, but here too we hunger for something larger. Astrov is a feckless visionary obsessed with the future; in Fox's controlled performance we miss the simultaneous brightness and vacancy of eye that belong to the incurable schemer...
...press would like the campaign to be as long as possible, to give it an epic sweep--great armies on the march, great men nobly surveying the terrain, great men brought down by tragic flaws (hubris, a voice that sounds like a peanut grinder, a big fishy loan, a shadowy past at the draft board, a bimbo in the closet). But it is humiliation enough just to run for President. Scandal hardly makes it worse. Scandal, in fact, endears the candidate to us. Senator Gramm, when asked why he had opted against military service in his youth, said, "It didn...
Despite a sweep last weekend, the Crimson remains in second place (15-6 overall, 7-2 Ivy) one game behind pace-setting Dartmouth...
...initial reaction was shock and sympathy when legendary Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis yesterday announced to the world that he has AIDS. Louganis is the only male diver to sweep the diving gold in consecutive Olympics - and managed to do so the second time, during the 1988 Seoul Games, despite gashing his head badly on a diving board. But TIME sportswriter Steve Wulf says there is a hanging question: "Why did he wait so long to tell people?" -- especially since Louganis tested HIV positive shortly before the Seoul Games. One possible explanation: Louganis' book, which touches on the subject, goes...