Word: playing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...1950s term, punch-card "chad," to our lexicon). The cable-TV pundits made their dependable racket and protesters filled the South Florida streets, but as the votes were recounted and Gore contested Bush's apparent victory, the public remained admirably patient--content to let this truly important episode play out. Our frivolous, sometimes hysterical age proved that it is still capable of serious thought...
...could play drama or comedy on the screen, but it was on the stage that he made his legend. Sir (Arthur) John Gielgud delivered storied portrayals of Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Richard II, and triumphed as a director as well. He was mentor, friend and equal to his fellow knight, Sir Alec Guinness...
...Olympics for once really did speak to larger issues of fairness and fellowship, baseball's World Series pitted brother against brother in a vintage New York City gang war. The image that lingers is not of a titanic home run or a dazzling play at shortstop, but of a large, fearsome pitcher preparing to throw a jagged piece of lumber toward a large, fearsome catcher. In the year 2000, the best of sports was about much more than sports. --Robert Sullivan...
...view of the surplus's long-term viability will be a major factor, and you can bet he's skeptical about not only the wisdom of any 10-year economic forecasts but politicians' ability to keep spending in check. But here the CBO's new numbers should come into play again - that surplus may be part fantasy, but at least it's getting larger...
TRENT LOTT Dude, you're a majority leader in name only when the Senate is split 50-50. Get ready to play well with others...