Word: saving
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...theme, Havel called "the expectation that one can glide through history unpunished and rewrite one's own biography" one of "the traditional Central European delusions." More pointedly, Havel declared, "Whoever fears to look his own past in the face must necessarily fear what is to come. Lies cannot save us from lies." Asked afterward whether Havel might have had him in mind, Waldheim was belligerent. "Certainly not," he told Austrian TV. "I did not rewrite my biography...
...Washington directly from Manchester, N.H. ("This is not a guy who travels a lot," says Rudman.) Souter called a third time to add that at the White House he would not discuss how he might rule in future cases. "They ought to know that beforehand," Souter insisted. "It might save all of us a lot of time...
...writing at Brown University. Although his semiautobiographical coming-out themes are staples of gay fiction, White has transcended the genre with his wit, attention to sensuous detail and intensely explicit style. Stripping himself as bare as any writer in history, he writes with a passion that is meant to save his soul and those of his readers...
...seven years, returning in January of this year. The calls, he says, are "generally from French gay boys sick with worry about coming down with AIDS." Or about those already sick, like Herve Guibert, a young Frenchman who just published a book titled To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. "He's dying. He was beautiful, and now he looks like an Auschwitz victim...
...once revered as a staunch fighter of fascism and the founder of communist Bulgaria, but past glories could not save Georgi Dimitrov from the ash heap of history. Last week Dimitrov's embalmed body was quietly removed from the mausoleum in Sofia's main square, where it had been on public display since his death in 1949, and cremated in a ceremony attended only by a few relatives...