Word: wrong
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...other people can protest, why can't we? Everyone has the right," said Vickery. "In this economic climate, a parking freeze sends the wrong message at the wrong time. The present freeze is a very simplistic approach. This group is not opposed to clean air or traffic mitigation programs...
...kept going to the homes in Chelsea and the backwoods of West Virginia, the mothers of Beverly Hills and Chevy Chase and Great Neck and Belmont were not on the telephones to their congressmen screaming you killed my boy, they were not writing to the President that his crazy, wrong, evil war had put their boys in prison and ruined their careers...
...prove that assessment wrong, Bush and his lieutenants last week began developing new strategies aimed at assuring his re-election. "The next two years are going to have a different feel," predicts a top White House official."We now face higher stakes than we faced in the first two years. So we'll act accordingly." In other words, the "kinder, gentler" days are over. Henceforth the White House will begin stressing the old tried-and-true campaign issues: flag-waving patriotism and firm opposition to crime, drugs, hiring quotas and taxes. Bush gave a preview of what is to come...
...elections demonstrated that all too many voters still believe the old fantasy of Reaganomics that taxes can be cut while government programs grow. Bush ran for the presidency on that very notion in 1988. When he agreed to higher taxes this year, he was implicitly admitting he'd been wrong. For this act of contrition, he has now paid a heavy political price. But the conclusion he seems to have drawn from the experience is precisely the wrong one. At this point, the U.S. does not need more 1988- style partisanship. It needs more leadership...
Obviously, Ethel, Lionel and John were wrong. The epic drama they sought was there all the time, too close and too painful for acknowledgment. Peters' work underlines the irony: only a biographer could relate this family saga. The playwright who attempted to describe the turrets, basements and closets in the House of Barrymore would never be believed...