Word: wars
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...diminishing attention to Washington?s international commitments, and a diminishing of the office of the presidency as the locus of foreign policy decision making. Voting down an arms control agreement painstakingly negotiated with Washington?s key allies and adversaries would have been almost unthinkable during the Cold War. Not that the Senate didn?t have the constitutional right to do so, but the global conflict with the Soviets created a political culture in which partisan debates ended at America?s shores, and a respect for the paramountcy of the president?s authority on matters of national security. Not for nothing...
...arms! And let out war...
...war, and hope, without delay...
...shadow of those who come before and after them. Yuppies are expected to make it through somehow, become an accountant, and show up for Thanksgiving with a crock-pot or two of mashed potatoes as bland and frothy as their own lives. Yuppies have had no Great War or Great Depression in their time; their Great Depression is, as Durden says, "their entire lives." A yuppie's existential malaise springs from the very stability and conformity that defines him or her as a yuppie: day in, day out, day after day after day, it's the same damn thing...
...began with little white stickers on Adams House ID cards. Now it is a full-fledged war...