Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question for FBI background checks, George W. bit. "As I understand it, the current form asks the question, ?Did somebody use drugs within the last seven years?? and I will be glad to answer that question, and the answer is no." Thursday morning in Virginia, back the goalposts went again. "Not only could I have passed in today's White House, I could have passed the standards applied under the most stringent conditions when my dad was president, a 15-year period." Bush Sr. signed up for the job in 1989, so now we?re back to 1974 ?- when Bush...
Recently, a new web site appeared called the Red Hat Wealth Monitor. Red Hat, of course, is a company that sells support services for the free operating system Linux. Last week, Red Hat went public in spectacular fashion. Check the wealth monitor now: It's worth almost $5 billion. This for giving away free software...
...problem with renegade horror, of course, is that it quickly gets domesticated and respectable. Directors such as Hooper and Raimi went on to big budgets and big stars. Horror villains such as Michael Myers and Freddy Krueger became kids' Halloween costumes. The Blair Witch will undoubtedly reappear in a sequel. But nothing will match those first bone-chilling, totally unexpected nights in the woods...
...funny--the classic Southerner. He wrote a great book about his dog. He wrote a fascinating book about the role of football in the South and the racial barriers, The Courting of Marcus Dupree. You know, most Southerners thought they'd be looked down upon if they went up to the Northeast. The cultural elites would all think they were hayseeds--although that was kind of phony; the New York Times was largely run by Southerners--but there was always this sensitivity about how you'd be seen. Willie gave us another way of thinking about the South...
...know, for most of my generation of Southerners who went north, the book that stuck in their minds was [Thomas Wolfe's] You Can't Go Home Again. Willie's North Toward Home was a beautifully written, evocative portrait of one person's love for the South who had profound regret over the racial situation. It helped a lot of people like me who wanted to see the world and do well up north but also come home and live in the South. He showed us how we could love a place and want to change it at the same...