Word: winging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Groark said in an interview that she considered herself to be "very moderate" and originally left the Republican Party because "the right wing of that party bothers me tremendously...
...lapse in collective memory: "After the Russians crushed the revolution, people's selective memory retained only the struggle against the oppressors and 'forgot' about the very real and important differences among whose who had fought." By 1993, those differences and their implications had become glaringly apparent. If some right-wing nationalists were to be believed, only white Christians deserved the name of "Hungarian"--Jews, gypsies and other minorities needn't apply...
Less than a year after Horthy's reburial, the parliamentary elections swept the conservatives out of office and brought back the "moderate" wing of the former communists, now called Socialists, who promised economic reforms. But on a visit to Budapest this past summer, all I heard were complaints: the gap between rich and poor was widening, and most people felt closer to the latter than the former. One woman in her forties, who works for a new "capitalist" enterprise, told me: "I come from a working-class family. Before 1989, my parents and I could count on several weeks' vacation...
...have badly lost his debate against Gore. That's what three instant TV polls said. That's what a panel of debate coaches said. And worst of all for Kemp, that's what prominent Republicans said, on the airwaves and, more vehemently, in private. "A disaster," thundered right-wing icon Rush Limbaugh. "We need new leaders!" Many of the callers to his syndicated radio show expressed amazement and anger that Kemp passed up debate moderator Jim Lehrer's invitation to critique President Clinton's ethics, even on such public matters as the collection of FBI background files by the Clinton...
...this fragmented environment, where news is no longer a common experience, is it any wonder that blacks and whites saw the O.J. Simpson verdict in such a radically different light? Or that right-wing militia groups--nourished by their own books, periodicals and E-mail lists--can be convinced that the West is being invaded by U.N. troops in black helicopters? When traditional sources of news start to disappear, alternate views of the world can flourish...