Word: trailed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ordinary people, and he has tried to present ordinary people to the elite," observes Ralph Whitehead, journalism professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "He can speak wonk, and he can speak American." But that is too rare a skill in his present circle. "On the campaign trail, he had Jim Carville, who had no trouble making himself understood in barrooms. He needs people in the Administration who will do the same...
Catherine Zuber's costume design comes close to salvaging the play. The lampshade dresses trail and flow and shimmer, and their colors serve to accentuate the personalities of the characters--who, considering the quality of the acting, need all the buttressing that they...
...teaching profession, but the pull of the '60s was too strong to keep Anita in the schoolroom for long. She spent a year in Paris clipping newspapers for the International Herald Tribune, another year in Geneva working for the United Nations, and then hit what she calls the hippie trail. She boarded a boat for Tahiti, passed through New Hebrides and New Caledonia on her way to Australia, and ended up in Johannesburg (by way of Madagascar and Mauritius). There she ran afoul of the laws of apartheid by going to a jazz club on a "black night...
Back in Littlehampton, Anita's mother introduced her to another veteran of the trail -- a tall, thin 26-year-old Scotsman who had worked his way around the world (mining in Africa, canoeing in the Amazon, sheep farming in Australia) but really wanted to be a poet. To hear Anita tell it, she was concerned with more down-to-earth matters. "I wanted to have children and needed some sympathetic sperm," she says. "What I didn't anticipate was that I would fall in love with my sperm donor...
...fact is no absolute privacy exists in a computer system, even for the boss. System administrators need to have access to everything in a computer in order to maintain it. Moreover, every piece of E-mail leaves an electronic trail. Though Oliver North tried to delete all his electronic notes in order to conceal the Iran-contra deal, copies of his secret memos ended up in the backup tapes made every night by White House system operators. "The phrase 'reasonable expectation of privacy' is a joke, because nobody reasonably expects any privacy nowadays," says Michael Godwin, general counsel...