Word: ticking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Magazine covers portrayed her as the prototype of an "Angry White Female," critics attributed her success to an ability to "tap into the inner frustrations and rage of females," and music industry execs simply waited for her fifteen minutes of fame to tick away...
...linchpin to all the subplots is Roger White II, 42, an impeccably dressed light-skinned black partner in the venerable Atlanta law firm of Wringer Fleasom & Tick. The nickname he picked up at Morehouse College, Roger Too White, reflected his disdain for all the campus talk about black separatism. But his old Morehouse friend and fraternity brother Wesley Dobbs Jordan is now the mayor of Atlanta. That connection explains why Roger is asked to represent Georgia Tech's All-American running back, Fareek ("the Cannon") Fannon...
...went right to the source: the students themselves. "We went about this from the ground up," says Claudia Wallis, the managing editor of TIME FOR KIDS and a mother of three who wrote our lead story on exceptional students. "We were interested in figuring out what made these kids tick. To do that, we spoke with the students, their parents, friends, teachers and coaches." Finding the kids featured in Wallis' article required a nationwide search, coordinated by the project's chief reporter, Megan Rutherford. Rutherford, who has two children, found the assignment rewarding: "I was talking to parents and educators...
Clinton has disappointed me, Starr has angered me, Tripp has disgusted me, and Lewinsky has embarrassed me, but it took Charles Krauthammer to really tick me off [ESSAY, Sept. 28]. His commentary "Clinton's Pyrrhic Victory" implies that the two-thirds of the American public who support Clinton are mindless sheep, being pushed willy-nilly by pollsters and incapable of independent judgment. Bill Clinton has not somehow won me over with lies and manipulation; I never thought his personal character was without blemish. What he has done is the job we chose him to do, and overall he's done...
...TICK, TOCK, TICK...TALK...