Word: appealing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Politicians and television shows are even judged by the same standards. Are their ratings up or down? How loyal is their following? Which demographic group do they appeal to the most...
...debut album, is alternative not in the sense of being part of a groundbreaking flip side to pop culture, but as part of a new and newly exploited commercial version of this flip side. But hey, if it sounds good, who really cares; Tripping Daisy is sure to appeal to a number of listeners to whom it will sound pleasantly familiar, and is a competent exercise in the recording and marketing of alternative music...
...request from Kelly didn't get very far. President Clinton considered the unusual plea at a meeting with security advisers--and promptly turned it down. Not surprisingly, a sudden injection of federal troops into the nation's capital had little appeal to the president...
...breaches of taste over the top -- "There are some times when it gets to be too much for me" -- always, she says, "the next morning I'll turn it on again." ABC News analyst Jeff Greenfield is more a dittohead than a Howard fan, but he appreciates the appeal of Stern's relentless sex talk. "He is the bubbling up from the subconscious," says Greenfield. "If you're a guy and you look at a beautiful woman, the first thing you think of is the most elemental gamey horndog level of response. That's Howard...
...terrible material wastes the talents of its principals. Irons makes the most of his two-dimensional character, and Lone ("The Last Emperor") manages to make clear Song's contempt for the fantasies he caters to. One of the film's few decent moments is Song's explication of the appeal of Puccini's Madama Butterfly: would the opera seem so romantic, she asks, if the races of the protagonists were reversed? Would Westerners swoon to see a blond cheerleader kill herself over a doomed love affair with a Japanese businessman...