Word: trickyness
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The Republicans, of course, are about to attempt a George Aiken on the whole populist rebellion. Aiken was the Senator who suggested ending the Vietnam War by declaring victory and coming home. With the completion of their "Contract with America," the Republicans will say: we promised to do 10 things...
The first story in the collection, "Little Creatures," is one of several road trip stories. Road trips are universally acknowledged to be a tricky subject, if only by virtue of their simple formula. It's far too easy to write a boring, pretentious road trip story. Coupland's road stories...
Howard's fans are right to claim that overstuffed government code books could use a good going-over. The tricky part is arriving at a principle--or, to use the dirty word, a rule--to guide the housecleaning. Without solid and even confining rules for the bureaucrats we spend so...
That assessment about sums up the cynicism of Cock-a-doodle-doo. Unlike the hero of Robert Penn Warren's political classic, All the King's Men, Jack is for sale almost at once. Weiss tells much of his thirtysomething story through party scenes, and he easily passes a tricky...
Dreams are tricky things, tantalizing and nebulous. The dream of a black retired general in the White House has been projected onto a man who belongs to no political party and has not, according to those who know him well, either decided to run or decided when he will decide...