Word: backgrounder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days, Tokyo is regarded as the regional deadbeat. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who pronounced China "an island of stability" in Asia's economic crisis, reminded people in Malaysia, Thailand and South Korea that he was "deeply, deeply" concerned about the value of the yen. Other officials were tossing off background critiques of Japan (whose Finance Minister, Hikaru Matsunaga, has been referred to as Minister for the Destruction of the World Economy) and warning that if its leaders didn't take "decisive action" fast, the world's second largest economy might drag the rest of Asia--if not the world--further...
...story "Starr's fellow traveler" [NATION, June 22] said that information about Linda Tripp's background, published in the New Yorker and obtained from the office of Pentagon public affairs chief Kenneth Bacon, had been released in violation of the federal Privacy Act. No government agency or other authority has determined that the Privacy Act was violated by this action. Some legal authorities maintain that the Freedom of Information Act could authorize or require the disclosure...
...believed, or at least hoped, that the emergence of new-style moderate voters would be enough to cost Jesse Helms his seat. Not yet. Now they are hoping that Edwards will be a crossover success, uniting those more moderate suburbanites with a good chunk of the rural conservatives whose background he shares. "I know 'em like the back of my hand," he says. Sensing trouble, Faircloth is hard on the attack, labeling the other guy a money-hungry trial lawyer whose life's work has driven up the cost of health care across the state. At the same time...
Through five grueling months of scandal, Tripp has been cast in at least three unflattering, even cartoonish roles. First, she was the Betrayer, who secretly taped the phone conversations of a love-struck friend. Next, according to a New Yorker reporter who dug into her background, she was the Vengeful Woman, an insecure gossip who had become embittered about the opposite sex because of a philandering father and her own failed marriage. Then, according to an account by media watchdog Steven Brill, she was the Set-Up Artist, a conniver who teamed up with literary agent Lucianne Goldberg to expose...
...fates turn around in the overtime?" Amos asks. "Ballerinas that have fins that you'll never find?" Most Tori devotees have spent enough time with her albums to interpret her Cheshire Cat-esque questions; and even if one hasn't, simply beginning to ponder them against the sweeping piano background is nothing short of enrapturing...