Word: thinker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doctors thought that poppers and other recreational drugs triggered the immune collapse. Others believed it was a bizarre allergic reaction from having too many sex partners. But Ho fell into the camp that suspected a virus. He quickly decided to specialize in AIDS research. "David was clearly a big thinker even then," says Dr. Mark Ault, who was a resident at Cedars Sinai at the time. "But that didn't stop us from kidding him about how he was always looking...
...only the exterior manifestations of the guile that these lords and ladies use to disguise their intentions. "Dangerous Liaisons," however, contents itself with skimming along the surface of social encounters where poisoned barbs are cushioned in silken words. "Ridicule" actually takes us behind the scenes. Gregoire is a quick thinker, with an aptitude for making perfect verbal ripostes, but he lacks finesse. Luckily, a sympathetic doctor agrees to sponsor him at court, and so Gregoire's education begins. Voltaire is the God of Versailles, and his works are its Bible. Through the doctor, Gregoire learns the rules underlying the smooth...
...flying machines, no cutaways of the human anatomy or exploded views of geared gadgetry. Still, Microsoft's billionaire boss surely got his money's worth. Of thousands of unbound manuscript pages produced by Leonardo (1452-1519), Codex Leicester is the best evidence of his enormous powers as a scientific thinker--and an astonishingly modern one at that...
...with an alcoholic parent (Clinton's stepfather, Bowles' mother, long since recovered). But the pair are opposites in many ways. "I spent my whole life in the private sector, he in the public," observes Bowles. "Some of my greatest strengths are in organization and structure; he is a freer thinker than I am." Clinton has always been a showboater; Bowles was forever modest. One of his prep-school teachers stuck a note in his school file praising his respectful manners with a prescient metaphor: "When you're in a duck blind with him and he shoots the bird out from...
Could any Republican have defeated the Great Conniver? I think so. A fighter aware of and engaged by the things that bedevil our country, a thinker able to speak with such clarity and simplicity that his words move people to action. That is not what the Republicans had this year in Bob Dole. But considering all he had against him, including himself, the percentage of the vote he won was a kind of triumph, even a kind of tribute to his gritty and stubborn endurance...