Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Greenfield is something of a tape recorder himself, registering every inflection and hypocrisy. Paulie mimics an indulgent father: "Clothes? Certainly, darling. A nice, expensive, out-of-town college? Name one, sweetheart, and I'll get you right in. A diaphragm? Of course, precious. I'll ask your mother to pick one up for you on the avenue while she's out shopping." Greenfield's oscillation between third and first person is singular without being wholly successful, but he manages that most difficult recipe: a blend of acrimony, humor, regret and hope. Soothing...
...momentum of a fresh Washington scandal, Capitol Hill was thick with shadowy suspicions, cover-up charges and three-ring theatrics last week. There was little new, substantive information to feed the six, count 'em six, congressional committees investigating allegations that the Environmental Protection Agency had made "sweetheart" deals with polluting companies and delayed cleanups of toxic-waste dumps for political reasons. But there was enough sound and fury to prove that the affair Capitol wags have dubbed Waste Watergate (Wastegate, for short) was, as one worried presidential aide put it, "out of control...
...welcome the good notices will be. The fact is that those at home have caused great consternation in recent weeks. And what seems most surprising is that much of the press rancor has lashed about the lovely head of the nation's new royal sweetheart, the Princess of Wales. Fleet Street's raucous tabloids, whose scuffling reporters and photographers first caught and transmitted the "Shy Di" craze, now clearly believe that the Princess is the creation and rightful property of the press. The newspapers praise or torment her according to their own royal whims, and rage when she balks...
...until two months ago to identify the 418 sites it regards as most dangerous. Of those, it has cleansed only five. Meanwhile, roiling criticism of the agency and its controversial administrator, Anne Gorsuch, attracted the attention of two congressional subcommittees, which began investigating charges that the EPA had made "sweetheart" deals with polluting companies and delayed cleanups for political reasons. When Gorsuch refused in December to turn over subpoenaed documents pertaining to 160 Superfund sites, she was cited for contempt of Congress-the first time in history for a Cabinet-level official...
...This sweetheart here, this little baby, looks like any ordinary machine, isn't that so? A mess of screws and buttons, a whole heap of plastic. Comes with new words too: RAMS and ROMS. Think that's what the machine is made of, do you?the hardware and the software and the mouse? Not a chance. The computer is made of you, lady. It's got you all inside it. You wished it here. No, not to do your taxes or to teach you German or to whip you in Pac-Man four out of five. You wished it here...