Word: clout
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tarkanian's continuing presence in the tourney is testimony to his clout as major-college basketball's winningest coach, despite the fact that he is also one of the sport's most controversial figures. The chief reason why he continues to appear in the NCAA knockout event is also the focus of much of the controversy: his 30-year-old coaching system, built on finding and nurturing players that other schools have passed up. This year eight of 14 UNLV players, including All-American forward Larry Johnson, came to UNLV from junior colleges or as transfers. Once on the Rebels...
Republican strategists doubt that the President's skyrocketing approval ratings will translate into clout with the Democrat-controlled Congress. Thus Bush will not squander his popularity in bold attacks on the country's myriad domestic problems. Instead, he will submit modest domestic proposals like last week's warmed-over housing and educational "opportunity" initiative, so that, in the words of one White House official, "nobody can say we don't have a domestic agenda." Still, Bush will try not to let the Democrats shift the national focus to social issues...
...goings-on were disgusting. It sort of helps, too, that the lobbyists can't figure me out. They call me eccentric because they don't know where I stand. They don't think I have any clout, so they try to ignore me. My campaign contributions from S&L lobbyists have been averaging $23 a year...
...Kids do get to recite part of the Gettysburg Address and, of course, say penis and vagina. But mostly Cop is a police procedural, a hostage thriller, a no-brain suspenser and a vengeful- mother drama. It adds up to the sternest test yet for Arnold's box-office clout -- and for the patience of his millions of fans...
...fable is in disrepute these days. Any fantasy that trumpets its artifice with storybook colors and extravagant decor -- all to illustrate the parable of a malformed artist-messiah rejected by his flock -- is asking for trouble. Perhaps only Tim Burton, fresh from his Batman bonanza, could have the clout to make such a defiantly vulnerable curio as Edward Scissorhands. And perhaps only this former animator could make it work so beautifully. A witty comedy of manners that arcs into poignance, this is a Christmas movie only a Grinch could hate...