Word: vetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue isn't just being on TV; it's the kind of TV. Panelists on the more flamboyant journalistic talk shows have allowed themselves, for entertainment's sake, to be typecast. Here's the liberal, over there the conservative; here's the wimpy moderate, there the curmudgeonly old vet. They are not asked to analyze the news (as journalists on Washington Week are). In the quest for good ratings, they are required to have and express opinions -- baked, half-baked, and some not even close to the oven -- according to the roles they've been assigned. For many serious journalists...
...invitation to teach at the Harvard Law School, and the family packed up and moved to the Boston suburb of Belmont. Perhaps because she was challenged by a language that she knew but was not expert at, she became serious, studious and focused. The infielder and the would-be vet gradually receded. Her adviser, Lillian Katz, says Masako "never needed moral support. She knew her own worth, and she knew that she was her parents' pride and joy." Belmont has reason to remember its former high-schooler. Since the engagement, Japanese tourists arrive by the busload to ogle her alma...
...allows me to explore the way he thinks." At times his choice of words is touchingly apt, even if he uses phrases to get results rather than express emotion. When the parrot, who lives with Pepperberg, became sick a few years ago, she had to take him to a vet and leave him overnight in a strange place for the first time in his life. As she headed for the door she heard Alex calling in his plaintive child's voice, "Come here. I love you. I'm sorry. Wanna go back...
...Duval family of Provence is introduced as a disaster waiting to happen. The father (Francois Cluzet), a country vet, is angry and impotent. The mother (Brigitte Rouan) is vague and forgetful, unhealthily doting on her younger child Olivier. Olivier's elder sister Nadine (Marina Golovine) thinks entirely too much about extraterrestrials. When Olivier, wearing his red cap, disappears while taking food to his grandmother's house (the fairy-tale parallel is obvious), grief becomes his family's excuse to surrender to their separate pathologies...
...m.p.h., tossed one trailer 150 yds., wrapped another's heavy steel frame around a tree trunk like a coat hanger, lodged an empty refrigerator high in a pine tree and left the forest strung with the sad confetti of broken lives: blankets, clothes and magazines. Said one Vietnam vet as he surveyed the site: "This looks like Hamburger Hill...