Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...months ago that Bush could survive the political hit for his U-turn on taxes if in return he solved the deficit problem. As an Administration official admitted, "We got suckered. Now we're in the same place we were three months ago except we've taken a 10-point hit in the polls...
...something anachronistic about these secessionist movements. After all, this is the era of unification, not only of Germany but also of a nine- tongued, multisovereign, historically riven Europe into that remarkable new creature, the European Community. (To say nothing of the joining of the two Yemens this May.) Integrationists point to the E.C. as the wave of the future, the only hope for peace and prosperity on a planet already suffering from a surfeit of sovereignty. Self-styled realists like Margaret Thatcher, however, scoff at the notion of multinational union as rank Utopianism, a dangerous deviation from the natural human...
...plan's proponents point out that only 3.2 of the forest's 10,930 hectares (eight of 27,000 acres) have been bulldozed so far, in preparation for installing a 25-MW, 12-well plant (only one well has been drilled). Even the most grandiose plan, which would generate 500 MW of electricity, would require only 142 hectares (350 acres). And while that would necessarily destroy some native plants and animals, at least one team of scientists from the University of Hawaii has concluded that Wao Kele O Puna has long since ceased to be pristine. Invaded by pigs, cats...
...away worrying about seating plans. The phone is a tactical weapon. A night at home alone induces existential dread, and success for someone like Colacello is measured not simply in invitations secured but also in invitations to events from which Warhol is excluded. Friendship seems to be beside the point; in a moment of accidental insight, Colacello remarks of the clot of people around Warhol that they wanted to go out with Andy, not home with...
...July 29 the violence in Liberia escalated dramatically. In one of the worst massacres of the nine-month-old civil war, troops allegedly loyal to Doe opened fire on some 2,000 refugees holed up in Monrovia's St. Peter's Lutheran Church. Firing with automatic weapons at point-blank range, the forces killed as many as 600. Survivors claimed that most of the victims were members of the Gio and Mano tribes. But the rebels are hardly a single unified front. Johnson's leadership is opposed by Charles Taylor, another insurgent, whose troops control parts of Monrovia...