Word: blunt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...governments on abortion. Though they have watered down their antiabortion language, House G.O.P. leaders Tom DeLay and Dick Armey have also promised Smith that payment of the arrears will remain linked to his proviso. That's unacceptable to the White House and its supporters. Massachusetts Senator John Kerry is blunt: "Petty, partisan, ideological, picayune politics are undermining the national-security interests of our country...
...Having tenure makes it easier to give forthright and, at times, blunt advice," Edley says. "I think that having an independent base and expertise is not only useful, but respected...
...film is full of casual dark humor, but what's best about it is its resistance to the conventional three-act movie structure. Its string of incident is relentless, virtually undifferentiated, like life, and contains no promise of uplifting resolution. Bringing Out the Dead is like its title--blunt, truthful, uncompromising. It is hard on an audience, even harrowing. But that's exactly what Martin Scorsese was put on earth...
...unheralded, positions. Both Gore and Bradley recently issued statements emphasizing their commitment to the pro-choice cause; Gore referred directly to the Senate's Roe v. Wade vote, noting America is "perilously close" to having an anti-abortion majority in the Senate. Yesterday's vote also provoked an uncharacteristically blunt comment from George W. Bush, who called late-term abortion "inhumane," and urged President Clinton to sign the bill. This is a new tack for Bush, but it's one we'll be seeing more of, as TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak told CNN. "Bush has been getting a pass...
...meantime, Yankees Suck has inspired its share of knock-offs. No fewer than half a dozen varieties of the shirt were on display in the bleachers at Fenway over the weekend, from the blunt white-on-red "Yankees Suck" to the effete calligraphy of "Yankees Suck," gold-on-blue...