Word: blur
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sometimes unlovely blur of headlong energy and pinwheeling, roughhouse creativity, the Speaker has transformed both the House of Representatives and the Speakership into unprecedented instruments of personal and political power. It has been an amazing performance and, for all its scattershot quality, a display of discipline that is either impressive or scary, depending on one's sympathies...
...that some sensible Medicaid savings could be achieved, but no more than that, the Administration may have marked a decisive turning point in the fiscal debate that will dominate the Capitol at least through Christmas. To many Americans, the battles over Medicare and Medicaid quickly dissolve into a confusing blur of federal health programs whose names sound virtually identical. But Medicaid demands special attention. Going too far for the sake of savings could worsen many of the problems that already afflict America's increasingly divided society...
...moment, the current fad for sorority movies threatens to fuse the entire genre into a wholesome blur. Was every grandma a font of domestic wisdom? Has Anne Bancroft assumed all the lovable grouch roles that used to be taken by Jessica Tandy? Will Winona Ryder ever get to play an adult? Ryder, Bullock and Julia Roberts all seem to be auditioning for the role of America's Niece, and as a result their films come off a bit prim. "Hollywood is in a postfeminist era," says Sharon Stone, one of the few current grownup actresses with that old movie-star...
...band's lyrics, however, have changed. While its last album dealt with specific manifestations of alienation--masturbation, pyromania--Insomniac is an indeterminate blur of bleakness. The CD's opening song, Armatage Shanks (the name of a toilet manufacturer), isn't about anything, really, and that may be its point. In the song, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong wails about confusion: "Stranded/ lost inside myself...Self loathing freak and introverted." On the album's anthemic final number, Armstrong blurts out a series of snotty lyrics that sound like an amalgam of parental advice and fortune-cookie sentiments, concluding with the declaration...
...homework paid off for Kidman. To Die For has won the 28-year-old Australian the most lustrous reviews of her career. Told in a blur of tabloid headlines, mockumentary interviews and dramatic reconstructions, the movie is the story of Suzanne Stone Maretto, a vamp from Little Hope, New Hampshire, who persuades a smitten teenager (Joaquin Phoenix) to try murdering her husband (Matt Dillon). The film, based on Joyce Maynard's novel, is a classy collision between the chipper misanthropy of scriptwriter Buck Henry and the eroticizing of dopey young sociopaths found in director Gus Van Sant's earlier work...