Word: breathless
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...amount of money sucked up during the latest campaign is revolting, reminiscent of the days of envelopes stuffed with cash. And that a pile of it came from Indonesians gives an old subject new life. But there's something terribly out of whack when three major newspapers base breathless exposes on a March 9, 1993, letter to the President from Mochtar Riady that gives his views on foreign policy, including normalizing relations with Vietnam (which George Bush had begun) and getting President Suharto of Indonesia invited to the G-7 summit (which Clinton didn't do). In fact, what...
...stated that "The Clinton White House is on the block to a degree that leaves even Republican influence peddlers breathless." What leaves me breathless is the hypocrisy of a President who ignores his own promises of campaign-finance reform, shamelessly and directly involves himself in raising $250 million (some of which may be illegal) and then, just days before the end of his last political campaign, once again calls for reform. I'm left breathless but not surprised. What else should one expect from a man (and his wife) whose capacity for hypocrisy seems boundless? DAVID F. WILLIAMS Minnetonka, Minnesota...
...blunt, breathless way, Morris went around the room describing the assets of each member of the team. He called Doug Schoen, the intense and bespectacled pollster, a superb numbers man and a loyal friend. Hank Sheinkopf, a straight-talking New York consultant, was a "raw talent" who excelled at making emotional attack ads. Marius Penczner, a video producer from Nashville, Tennessee, was a terrific shooter but didn't know much about politics. Bill Knapp, Squier's lanky partner, was a top-notch writer and manager, while Tom Ochs, the firm's third partner, was a tough political operative. And Morris...
Whether you were a braves fan or a yankees fan or just a plain fan, the 1996 World Series left you breathless. And if you were an older fan, you were so reminded of the passion play between the Milwaukee Braves and New York Yankees in the 1957 and 1958 World Series that you half expected the Yankees' Bullet Bob Turley to come in from the bullpen to face Frank Torre, who was then the Braves' first baseman and not just Yankee manager Joe Torre's older brother...
...Nicolas had just graduated from an elite law school near Manila when she met young Reginald Lewis on a blind date while visiting New York City. She still recalls their romance--from courtship and marriage to dinners with heads of state at their palatial apartment on the Seine--as "breathless, magic." As Reg built his financial empire, first with the leveraged buyout of a radio station, then the McCall Pattern Co. and finally Beatrice, she put her job aside to raise their two daughters. The magic ended when he was stricken by brain cancer...