Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bacon merely drifts in and out as the perverse Mr. Wrong in one of his most forgettable roles. If anything, the movie could have used more of the potential spice of the two supporting females: there isn't nearly enough of Illeana Douglas or Olympia Dukakis as Kate's anxious, marriage-obsessed mother (a figure right out of the comic-strip "Cathy," but Dukakis could have added some much-needed edge...
...soon as the summiteers issue their invitations and wind up the ceremonies, President Clinton, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Defense Secretary William Cohen will board their Air Force planes and bustle across Europe to congratulate the fortunate three and soothe and reassure the anxious applicants that have been left out. Some of those, especially the Romanians, are extremely upset, though they say they will be glad to greet the President and hear his better-luck-next-time message...
...would be a lot to ask people to calmly ride out one or two of these revolutions without getting anxious; we are facing four at once, and so maybe it's a natural reflex to change the locks or build a fence, to sort through values and valuables for the ones most worth hanging on to. The evidence suggests that all this change is making Americans more conservative, not so much politically as psychically, sending them back to church or into bookstores looking for volumes about how to live an authentic life--making them garden and recycle and learn yoga...
...skirling Black Watch bagpipes, phalanxes of Gurkha soldiers and the measured paces of the Prince of Wales. But for all its high-toned honorability, the midnight ceremony on June 30 handing Hong Kong over to the People's Republic of China leaves the West feeling guilty, ignoble and very anxious. In those 67 prior cases, the world's greatest modern empire was setting free its territories to be democratic, at least in theory. What the West cannot quite stomach this time is that the stunningly prosperous enclave of Hong Kong, home to more than 6 million Chinese, most of whom...
...plenty of people in Hong Kong are still concerned that their civil liberties are not protected well enough. When Tung attempted to curtail public protests even moderately, he ran into an international hailstorm of criticism. Observers grew even more anxious when Tung publicly suggested on the eve of this year's June 4 rally that it was time for Hong Kong to "forget the baggage" of Tiananmen. The Independent Commission Against Corruption is widely credited with cleaning up Hong Kong's notoriously graft-riddled police and civil service in the late '70s and maintaining a staunch bulwark against the rampant...