Word: processing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scandal escapes me because I am a foreigner. But I live here, I study here and I love this country for all the opportunities it is giving me. And it saddens me to see what America has come to. I can no longer stand idly by while the impeachment process takes place. I want to speak my mind. I want to defend the President...
...Scott Berg writes in his superb biography, Lindbergh (G.P. Putnam's Sons; 640 pages; $30), "radio, telephones, radiographs and the Bartlane Cable Process could transmit images and voices around the world within seconds...For the first time, all of civilization could share as one the sights and sounds of an event--almost instantaneously and simultaneously...
...with the Ken Starr bashing! Starr was given a difficult and thankless job: he had to uncover the misdeeds of an elusive foe. Considering the power of the President, it is doubtful that a less determined person would have been able to force Slick Willie to confess. Obviously the process has been disruptive and costly, but what would Americans have had Starr do? If we don't want to know when politicians break the law or commit immoral acts, then we'd better get rid of the special-prosecutor law. Otherwise, let's not shoot the messenger just because...
...sailor wonders if the President isn't a narcissist, prone to delusions of invulnerability. Someone else thinks he wanted to get caught--the revenge of his guilty Baptist conscience, perhaps. Maybe all the talk at church of a final heavenly judgment compelled him to want to speed up the process...
...True Thing, a patient, unforced adaptation of Anna Quindlen's novel by screenwriter Karen Croner and director Carl Franklin, contains lots of true things about that process. For it immerses us in the awful, vertiginous panic that attends a death in the family--the fierce-wistful attempts to maintain routines in the face of this most exigent of interruptions; the desire to speak certain truths before it's too late and the fear of what consequences such candor might have; the politesse with which you must cover the outrage you feel as the rest of the world glides on about...