Word: badness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smell of political red meat. Except when you ask the Republicans what they would do differently, the answer is: not much. They offer no fresh ideas, just stricter oversight of loans, more criticism of bad behavior, greater caution toward leaders. No one, not even firebrand Jesse Helms, who is about to launch Senate hearings, would stop all aid or cut Russia adrift. Candidates like George W. Bush don't disagree with the basic notion of engaging Russia either, so he's left to look for traction with the mushy "I'd manage it better" argument. Even the most skeptical voter...
...from roofs and trees where they had been stranded by rising waters. But that was nothing compared with the havoc that authorities had feared. Floyd came on like a lion but ended up as a--well, not a lamb, exactly. Call it a sheep on steroids with a very bad attitude...
...slacking underachiever. But since he's our new television critic, it means he's on the job. Since joining the magazine in July, he has been busy screening pilots for the new fall season. "I like shows that aim high. They're more interesting if they are either outrageously bad or outrageously good, as opposed to competently reliable," he says. This week, in addition to reviewing the new show Once and Again, he writes about personal video recorders, which some analysts maintain may change the way we watch TV and the way television pays for itself...
...rocky one. The mind-whammy of sudden celebrity, the devastating 1997 death of the grandmother who raised him in his hometown of Mercer, Pa., and the overwhelming pressure to come up with another hit all converged to push Reznor into a quicksand of depression. "I was in a bad place," he recalls. "I couldn't work. I couldn't look in the mirror." Seldom listening to radio, tuning in to MTV "only to remind myself not what to do," he shut himself off from the world. For weeks he avoided the studio and spent his time watching Scorsese's Taxi...
Reznor finally clambered out with the aid of a therapist. "[Therapy] helped me in the sense that it provided an explanation. They said, 'You're not up and down, you're just a quart low.' Not bad." The awareness of his mild depression left him, he says, "not repaired but enlightened. I'm aware of my fragility now, which is a better thing. I'm not afraid to admit...