Word: shadowed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...easy getting a political convention off the ground--especially when the convention is not really a convention but a "shadow convention," and especially when the politics being convened is not the old-fashioned kind but a new, revolutionary kind of politics that will "transcend the old categories of left and right." Arianna Huffington has been learning this lesson the hard way all summer. While Americans across the country--hundreds of them! maybe thousands!--eagerly await the twin spectacle of the Republican and Democratic conventions in Philadelphia and Los Angeles, the syndicated columnist and former Newt Gingrich confidant has been trying...
...exploding in ways I could not have imagined," Huffington says, riding through downtown Philadelphia a few weeks before the Republicans are scheduled to arrive. Today she has already held a press conference, visited two newspaper editorial boards, met with a dozen area activists and scouted the arena where the shadow revels are to be held. But the complications never let up. An aide's cell phone beeps, and he hands it over. "Bill Bradley," he says. Bradley has unofficially agreed to appear at one of the shadow conventions...
Moreover, Suharto's shadow may hang over Indonesia until the disposition of the ex-dictator's allegedly ill-begotten fortune is determined. Last month a court in Jakarta threw out a defamation suit brought by Suharto against TIME for a May 1999 article claiming that the President and his family had acquired some $15 billion during his rule. (Suharto has appealed.) Wahid cites the suit as proof of the dictator's hidden wealth. Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono has accused cronies of Suharto's of inciting bloody riots to derail further investigations. Yet in the meantime, Wahid has been secretly negotiating...
...following evening Wahid turned the sights on himself. At a performance of traditional Indonesian wayang shadow puppets, he was asked by the puppeteer how becoming President has affected him. "I am afraid I am also a player in a larger story that I don't control," replied Wahid, suddenly serious. "I am a puppet that will be put back in the box when I am no longer needed...
...summer or two ago on a lake in Ontario, I let my canoe drift on a light breeze down the shoreline of a piney island. A muskie, 4 ft. long, mistook my canoe for a floating log and came to laze in my shadow, his surly, prehistoric head 3 ft. from mine in the emerald water. He rippled his ventrals and pectorals to stabilize his dreamy suspension. I moved only my eyes at first, and then not even those. At length, not thinking, I shifted my arm on the gunwale. The motion roused the fish from its dream. It finned...