Word: mattered
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...government to banish poverty by decree. They will be disillusioned by the time and exertion required to refloat an economy that has run aground. And Chamorro will not perform without error. She considers her mission divine but suffers from high-handedness and an aversion to criticism, no matter how well intentioned. Irritated by endless comparisons with Philippine President Corazon Aquino, another widow of a national hero, she has developed a response both disarming and revealing: "I would rather be thought of as a Latin Margaret Thatcher...
...ordered. Those who opposed his plan, he said, were "trying to sow mistrust." This was no time for "cheap demagoguery." He had contemplated not running in the next presidential election, he said, but decided that to withdraw now would be cowardly. The national interest demanded "quick action on this matter." The chastened legislators listened well: they voted 347-24 to pass the bill and send it on to the Congress of People's Deputies for final approval...
Conveying that elusive reality in documentaries or news footage -- or in written dispatches, for that matter -- is often impossible. As press secretary Marlin Fitzwater said on Brokaw's special, the press sees only about 10% of what really goes on in the White House. Fitzwater's remark was the most candid line in the show. In view of television's continued reliance on pictures to tell the White House story, it was also the most cautionary...
...participants in the birth of the U.S.S.R. believed they were choosing the best method of solving the nationalities question. Instead, they were setting a huge time bomb. No matter what the reasons were behind the formulation of the union -- according to Lenin, to stimulate the world revolution; according to Stalin, to build socialism in one country -- it would even out the various levels of development of many peoples and bring different nations, cultures and civilizations into a common framework. But only one method could be used to achieve this Utopian goal: mass violence. The union was doomed from the very...
...were looking. In fact, serious figurative art never went away -- it just got hammered out of fashion by minimalism, the last great American style, in whose reductive embrace Moskowitz grew up just as it was coming to an impasse. As for "advanced," who gives a damn anymore? But no matter: Moskowitz's current exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City (on view through April 24) contains some admirable paintings, even if the run-up to them is gradual...