Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Those last six were hard to find in New Orleans last week at a meeting of the Democratic Leadership Council, the organization founded after Walter Mondale's 1984 defeat to make sure that a liberal would never get another chance to blow 49 states in a presidential election. Guided by "neoliberals" like Senators Sam Nunn and Chuck Robb, armed with a raft of fiscally responsible Mr. Goodwrench programs, the D.L.C. is dedicated to yanking the party back to the middle. But neo, the prefix that was supposed to make liberalism safe for Democrats again, has instead made them boring...
Political analyst William Schneider predicts that Democrats "won't stop talking about schemes until they come up with a theme and find someone who can make music." The only Democrat who can carry a tune is Mario Cuomo, but he is too liberal to pass the D.L.C. entrance exam, and since his inspiring "City on the Hill" speech at the 1984 convention, he has been reluctant to sing before a national audience. D.L.C. stalwarts like Bentsen, Al Gore and Robb have tin ears. Nunn's libretto -- defense and national-security policy -- seems increasingly irrelevant for a world rushing toward peace...
...brutality alone of Harris' crime would make him notorious. A conjunction of place and time has made him something more: a symbol of the future for the nation's more than 2,200 death-row inmates. If Harris goes to the gas chamber, California will join the relatively short list of states that have carried out executions since the Supreme Court declared the death penalty constitutional in 1976. And it will do so at the very moment that the death penalty has become a hot campaign issue around the U.S. "There is almost a mob attitude in California, a frenzy...
...naturally to Margiela. His clothes are anything but gaudy, however, reflecting instead the dour severities of northern Belgium, where he grew up. He is one of several young designers who have emerged from Antwerp's Academie Royale des Beaux-Arts and who adapt menswear for women. Margiela likes to make new clothes look lived in. Although a scrupulous tailor, he sews dark seams at the knees of trousers to resemble a crease. Like everyone else, he goes for thigh-high boots, but his are real fishing gear subjected to a dubious paint job. He avoids ornamentation; all his buttons function...
...grossly inflated art market, burglars make off with old-master paintings. -- The Getty buys the world's most expensive work, Van Gogh's Irises, but won't reveal the price...