Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...benign, law-enforcement officials are distraught because State's security procedures were so easily circumvented. A department spokesman says that until the investigation is complete, "lurid speculation as to the nature of any documents which may or may not have been compromised is premature." But U.S. diplomats must wonder whether a tweedy colleague is walking the halls and preparing to strike again...
...about perseverance and the uses of charisma. As the actor spreads his seductiveness on a movie screen like jelly on toast, so does Clinton work a room or a country, avidly selling his policies and himself, in love with being loved--and with his need to be loved. No wonder that when Travolta met Klein, he said, "I've been waiting my whole life to play this role...
...earlier immunity deal with Lewinsky. And Clinton lawyer David Kendall wants Johnson to plug grand jury leaks he says are coming from Starr. During Watergate, John Sirica used the same judicial perch to prod along the investigation of President Nixon. Court watchers familiar with Johnson's pro-government tilt wonder which way it will lead her: to favor the special prosecutor who formally represents the government, or the President he seems intent on bringing down...
...wonder if taking offense at thismulti-racial band would be taking them tooseriously. Or not seriously enough. More thananything political, their message is in theirfavoring of combination over content. When ShaunRyder sings about sexism, he is in a sense mockingit, defusing it with the same sarcasm thatdeflates everything he touches. Just what BlackGrape believes is Stupid, Stupid, Stupid isobvious. Laughing as they rocket over the egoismof grunge and the self-conscious stylism of Oasisand Blur, Black Grape has no inclination not toalso leave political music in the scrap heap. Whenit comes to humor, there is intelligence in seeingthe commonalties between...
...constraint and emotional effervescence. In giving the upper melody to the cello, the bass line to the viola and a flirtation of rising and falling scale passages to the first and second violins, Haydn's piece created a mood that the quartet conveyed as sad, thoughtful and full of wonder. While the fourth movement, Presto e scherzando presented a direct contrast--with its expulsions of happiness in the form of harmonic and melodic unpredictability--there was, nonetheless, room for moments of sensitive contemplation that the Guarneri String Quartet used in making the piece as cerebral as melodic. Their second piece...