Word: close
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Obviously, Ethel, Lionel and John were wrong. The epic drama they sought was there all the time, too close and too painful for acknowledgment. Peters' work underlines the irony: only a biographer could relate this family saga. The playwright who attempted to describe the turrets, basements and closets in the House of Barrymore would never be believed...
...predicts, "you'll see the churches growing through the walls because people have nowhere else to go." Whatever its religious forms, in other words, the black church still has what Lincoln and Mamiya call the "institutionalized staying power of a human community that has been under siege for close to 400 years." If the church flourishes, the community will gain strength...
Bradley could be a straight shooter again -- it is in him somewhere -- and he insists that he gets the message implicit in his close call: "I hear what the voters are saying; they don't think politicians have a lot to offer." But does he really get it? Bradley still won't say where he stands on New Jersey's new tax scheme, and he maintains that if he had it to do all over, he would do nothing differently. Bradley's boosters have long agonized about him as a presidential candidate because he is so often boring. They must...
...meager showing represented a vote against Cuomo himself -- against his aloofness and his governance. "We must learn to do more with less," Cuomo said during his first term. But state spending has soared, New York's overall tax burden is in the stratosphere, the state's budget deficit is close to $1 billion, and Cuomo's massive spending programs are perceived as having had little if any impact on crime and poverty...
...Some of the Democratic Governors elected last Tuesday favor limited government. Cuomo too will bow to reality and cut New York's budget. "They'll wake up," he says of his constituents. "They rail about spending but they will complain even more when it's cut, when their libraries close and other services decline...