Word: clintonians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seemed, whenever Clinton tripped, it was Gore who stubbed his toe. To make his bones in the Administration, for example, good-soldier Gore worked too hard at fund raising and ended up taking money from Buddhist monks and babbling about controlling legal authority. But tomcattery is one perceived Clintonian trait that hasn't rubbed off on Gore. "Clinton and Gore are friends, but not that kind of friends," says a senior Gore aide. "They're close colleagues who sometimes see each other away from work, but then usually as a foursome with their wives--not a boys' night...
...film, Henry Fonda plays a pol dogged by a handful of Clintonian traits: Intellect. Indecisiveness. And bushels of babes. But Tracy's ex-President Hockstader knew enough to ask him: "You didn't write them any letters...
...displayed its conservative tendencies, it also made very clear over the course of the past election cycle that it desired a compassionate conservatism. While Americans wanted smaller government, they still wanted that government to have a heart and to empathize with them. (Hence, the oft ridiculed yet highly effective Clintonian mantra, "I feel your pain.") President Clinton was very successful in painting the GOP as a party that didn't care about children, minorities, women and the elderly--a party that didn't care for all Americans. Some in the Republican Party would like to point out that Bill Clinton...
...only fitting that Bob Dole's last minute attempts to save himself politically with a frenzied attack on Clintonian ethics should coincide with the staging of This Town. It is even more fitting that the show should be performed at that last bastion of liberalism, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. While This Town exposes the Washington culture that feeds what Mr. Dole sees as the White House scandal machine, its target is not the residents of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., but rather the pack of wolves officially known as the White House Press Corps. Much to the chagrin...
Computers have not replaced the human touch in TIME's research--that spark of humor, that willingness to make the extra effort. Time Chronicles editor Bruce Handy delights in using Nexis to track quirky statistical trends, such as last week's chart of the popularity of various presidential adjectives. (Clintonian, with 536 citations over 15 years, edged out Reaganesque, with 473). "I've never heard anyone at the center admit defeat," says Chicago bureau chief James Graff, a devoted fan. "Last month we requested information on a drug bust, date unknown, in the Chicago suburb of Hanover Park. The faxes...