Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...subtlety and cunning. Other tales investigate the vagaries of love, married and adulterous, and the mystery that separates the sexes. One woman's musings encapsulate the story collection: "A knot in his mind you might undo, a stillness in him you might jolt . . . Could it be said to make you happy? Meanwhile, what makes a man happy? It must be something quite different...
...Orleans is a free-lance journalist who works weekends, as evidenced by her lively nonfiction, Saturday Night (Knopf; 258 pages; $19.95). Ranging around the U.S., she watches people spend and squander their leisure hours. In Elkhart, Ind., folks drive slowly up and down Main Street. In Los Angeles airheads make the club scene. In Baltimore an octogenarian goes to her weekly polka dance; she has not missed one in nearly 30 years. A Manhattan socialite lends credence to the belief that the wrong people have money: "I'm always out in the country riding my horse and so forth...
Though he won only 9% of the black vote in 1988, Bush believes Democrats are foolishly taking their black supporters for granted. He is making every effort to gain some votes back. The idea is not to win over all blacks, or even most of them, but to slice off just enough, say 20%, to make the difference in Southern states where monolithic black support helped Democrats upset Republican incumbents in 1986 and 1988 Senate and House races. Call it the 20% solution...
With new urgency, an old joke is making the rounds in Moscow. It may not be a knee slapper, but the times make it worth retelling. Shifts in Soviet leadership have historically moved from the bald to the hirsute: from the chrome-dome Lenin to the brush-cut Stalin; from Khrushchev to Brezhnev; from Andropov to Chernenko. Which brings everyone to Mikhail Gorbachev, who is nearly as bald as a darning egg, and to the upstart Boris Yeltsin, whose mane of graying locks ruffles conspicuously these days in the winds of change...
Never a fan of unattributed quotes in damaging stories, the White House staff chief has lately begun leak-hunting expeditions to identify unnamed sources in articles that make Bush look good. The vigilance is not working well: aides privately report that Sununu often fingers the wrong person...