Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...caught uneasily between past and future. When Halloween arrives, she notes, "Grace was at an interesting sociological moment: the teenagers inhaled MTV and all wanted to look like convicted felons, but at the same time, nobody here was worried yet about razor blades in apples." And the matriarchs who make up the town sewing circle, called the Stitch and Bitch Club, are both amusing and formidable...
Last week, however, George Bush gave a speech -- no, make that an oration -- that riveted listeners and left absolutely no doubt he meant every word he uttered. Speaking softly and with a menacing lack of emotion, Bush stood before a joint session of Congress and spoke directly to Saddam Hussein. "Iraq will not be permitted to annex Kuwait," he vowed, to thunderous applause. "That's not a threat, not a boast. That's just the way it's going to be." Yes, he felt great sympathy for the hostages held by the Iraqi leader. "But our policy cannot change...
...Iraqi troops in Kuwait had just raided the embassy compounds of France, Canada, Belgium and the Netherlands, briefly detaining five Western consuls, including an American, and spiriting away three French citizens to an unknown location. After calling the incident an "outrageous Iraqi break-in," Bush resisted reporters' efforts to make him issue sweeping threats. "You're trying to get me to sound like I'm rattling sabers," he said. "When I rattle a saber, the man will know...
...much should Japan and Germany contribute? America's two richest allies have been slow to ante up. Both claim their postwar constitutions make it impossible for them to send military units outside their own regions. Even if that is true, their prolonged fumbling in reaching for wallets has produced anger on Capitol Hill. Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona accused Bonn / of "contemptible tokenism," while Democratic Representative Carroll Hubbard of Kentucky said Tokyo was behaving predictably: "If there's no profit in it for them, forget...
...started collecting records," he remembers. "But it was the rock stuff that my older brothers had exposed me to. Then I got into Loggins and Messina, Croce, Buffett, Jackson Browne and James Taylor." He's had a total of one professional guitar lesson, and all it did was make him impatient. He just kept his eyes open around his hometown, where "there was always somebody with a guitar. I learned that with three chords I could transpose just about any song and play it." Now Black's traveling band reflects his informal and eclectic approach. "The guys," he says, "have...