Word: lilliputian
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...case, the rebellion by a coalition of liberal Democrats and Reaganite Republicans was in effect a vote of no-confidence in Bush and the congressional leadership's end-of-ideology experiment with European-style coalition government for domestic affairs. Such a caretaker arrangement suited a President with a lilliputian domestic agenda and a Democratic leadership more concerned with sharing power than making tough choices. But it ill served a nation that had for too long papered over its problems...
Shapiro first earned attention in the '70s with pieces that reversed the cult of Big Size in American sculpture -- a bronze house 9 in. high, for example, or a lilliputian metal chair sitting on the floor. Seen in the huge white-wall and oak-floor gallery spaces of early SoHo, these looked totally out of sync with their surroundings. Yet the contrast between the object and the space around it was part of Shapiro's project. The smallness seemed to gather and focus the room, stretching the distance between your eye and the sculpture, while giving the dumb-looking thing...
...public statements have been typically coy and evasive -- prudent politicians "never say never," he declared -- but privately, for now, he is heeding the counsel of friends and his wife Jackie to stay out of it. Settling into the mayor's office would mean being tied down by the Lilliputian strings of Washington's troubled municipal bureaucracy. Speaking before the Barry arrest, Jackson said, "It's just too small a stage for me." And his friends note that Jackson is well aware that Capitol Hill has as much to say about the District's budget as does the mayor. He would...