Word: weekends
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...busy on her bid for New York?s Senate seat. But residents of the tranquil New York City suburb needn?t fear being turned into an extension of Pennsylvania Avenue. "As long as Bill Clinton is in the White House, this house will remain strictly an occasional weekend getaway," says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "And once he?s out of office, Clinton has made clear that he plans to spend a lot of time in Arkansas building his presidential library. And if the First Lady does get elected to the Senate, of course, she?s going to have...
...died almost exactly a year later, on Labor Day weekend, 1996. During that year, I loathed my dad at times, and I'm sure he felt the same way about me. As some men do, he just withered away after she died. He wouldn't let anyone into the house to clean except me. He ran off anyone who tried to help, then complained about loneliness. He picked up women on the bus, talked about getting remarried (always to someone in her 30s or 40s, I noticed), confided details of his marital life that I really didn't want...
Stepashin, meanwhile, had turned coy about his own presidential ambitions. Like Primakov before him, he had become too popular for the Kremlin's liking. Over the weekend, as polls showing Stepashin pulling even with Luzhkov landed on Voloshin's desk, and militant separatists in the Caucasus reappeared on Russian TV screens, the Family gathered and Yeltsin pulled the trigger. "Stepashin made no major mistakes," says a Kremlin aide. "He simply failed to become the good dictator...
...have been to only one family reunion, a weekend affair on the beautiful farm of one of my favorite aunties. The setting was perfect, with plenty of games, food and swimming. I was primed for a fabulous party, and then I noticed that my relatives were showing up. I remember pulling up to the reunion in a rental car, looking at the gathering clan and thinking, "What are they doing here?" So first a warning: if you attend a family reunion, there is every likelihood that you will see your family there...
...Benenson, who is the world's leading expert in most things, called me over the weekend. "I just got a new Palm IIIe," he bragged, referring to the popular pocket-size digital organizer. He was particularly pleased with the price ($229). I waited, for cruel effect, then asked, "Is it too late to return it?" I am such a blowhard...