Word: want
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rising tides that lifted the biggest ships. That may have changed last Tuesday, when masked youths started smashing windows in Seattle. In one red-hot CNN Minute, the eclectic concerns of a planetful of protesters--environmentalism, Tibet, child labor, human rights--crystallized right where most of them didn't want to be: beneath the anarchist banner...
...that he needs it. Reporters who say they want to spend the day with him but don't show up until 8 get voice-mail messages from the Senator. "Hope I'm not disturbing your sleep, you lazy bastard!" In Phoenix on Monday morning, he darts around the house, from room to room, pointing to his collection of Hopi kachina dolls or the autographed boxing gloves from Evander Holyfield. Every surface in the living areas of the house, horizontal and vertical, is covered with something--photographs or plaques; framed programs from the 1992 christening of the U.S.S. John S. McCain...
STUDENTS Teens still want to be popular, but they most want to be remembered as achievers...
...Wall Street cabal run the world through such shell organizations as the WTO. And you had your apolitical Luddites, who refuse to accept that growth, prosperity and upward living standards always entail some dislocation. A century ago, they tried to destroy the satanic mills of industrializing Europe. Today they want to stop the global redistribution of labor, in which previously starving Third World peasants get their start with low-paying industrial jobs while First World workers shift to the more antiseptic high-skill information economy...
...will take the American musical into the new millennium? Two very different camps are vying to lay out the future path for this very 20th century art form. On one side are the rockers, who want to give the musical a fresh beat and a more contemporary, populist appeal. But Rent hasn't exactly spawned a revolution, and rock on Broadway right now consists of little more than 20-year-old Bee Gees songs. On the other side are the artistes, a group of theatrical composers who use Stephen Sondheim as a model, care little about tunes that send...