Word: actioner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recent years have seen amazing reversals of traditional political postures, none more amazing than on the issue of using military force. Although the pattern is mixed and shifting, in Kosovo and other recent military controversies liberals are more likely to favor military action and conservatives are more likely to oppose it. The folks who frothed about protesters undermining the war effort are now doing it themselves...
...footie, who is a household name--if your household has a girl who plays soccer. Hamm shoots Nike ads with Michael Jordan and earns more than $1 million a year in endorsements. She's one of the most recognized athletes in the U.S. One look at Hamm in action will tell you that she shares His Airness's furnace-like competitive fire and focus. But she parts company with him when it comes to her approach to fame. Jordan wears his celebrity comfortably, effortlessly, like a scarf thrown over his shoulders. Hamm finds the garment restricting. She has refused cover...
Atkinson is a former marine, and the well-groomed north side of Phoenix was too quiet for him. Three years ago, he asked for a transfer to Maryvale, where the action is. No white-haired Sansabelts in golf carts here. Drugs rule; gang bangers shoot each other out of boredom; and third-generation Mexican Americans join Anglos in grumbling about the illegals who pour across the border four hours to the south and come here to live, 10 and 20 to a house...
Despite Hickman's attempts to warn his long-departed prodigal son, a black assassin shoots Sunraider on the floor of the Senate. The novel's action takes place on what we assume to be the Senator's deathbed in the form of remembered riffs of sermons, folktales, signifying and the dozens, in an often dazzling extended call-and-response pattern suggestive of two dueling horns in an after-hours gig at a jazz club...
...comes to a fence, and instead of walking around to the opening, as ordinary non-studly types would do, he rests one hand on top of the barrier and swings his whole body over, as if he's in an action sequence in T.J. Hooker. It's a little thing, but muy macho. It helps you understand the screams of women at his concerts...