Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...half-century, even some supporters say they don't know what he stands for. It is a politician's worst nightmare: Dole's own internal polls show that voters know what Pat Buchanan believes in, what Phil Gramm would fight for. A senior adviser to the Dole campaign was brutal in his private assessment: "If you ask Dole today, 'What's your message?' he'll say, 'Tenth Amendment, family values, preserve, protect and defend.' He's got the mantra down--it just doesn't mean anything...
ROCK PERFORMERS USED TO THINK big. In the '70s and '80s, groups like Led Zeppelin and Genesis turned songs into epics stretching for seven, eight, nine minutes. But for the past several years--in part influenced by Nirvana, whose visceral songs got much of their power from their brutal succinctness--many rockers have opted for brevity. Hot bands like Green Day and Foo Fighters turn out short, single-minded songs whose melodies, like newly announced presidential candidates, strive for instant likability. That's not necessarily a bad thing: blasting Weezer on your Walkman after a hard...
...first such vote since the Supreme Court decriminalized most abortions in 1973, the House voted 288 to 139 to ban a very rare form of late-term abortion that anti-abortion legislators described as particularly brutal to fetuses. Despite the likelihood of a Senate filibuster and a presidential veto, abortion-rights advocates said they feared that the House bill, which would impose criminal penalties on doctors, could presage the passage of even more restrictive legislation...
Amir saw himself as an agent of God, much as Lee Harvey Oswald saw himself as an agent of "history." The young man's mania lay in this desire for greatness. Amir created a destiny for himself that would make him greater than Rabin. One brutal act would propel him out of obscurity. One brutal act would make him a hero or a martyr...
...this as a major resource," he notes, "and seek to strengthen ties with it. There is a danger it might be hijacked." (In fact, Promise Keepers has no official position on abortion, and its disapproval of homosexuality is stated in considerably more neutral terms than McCartney's own brutal remarks in the past.) Martin also shares with some of the movement's feminist critics an unease about Promise Keepers' position on the man's authority within the family.(a speaker once wrote that men should "treat the lady gently and lovingly--but lead"). He notes, however, that "even in Evangelical...