Word: crooke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grass. The dirt. The roar of the crowd. The pigskin sailing through the air from one sweaty hand to an even sweatier crook of the arm. The sweet smell of victory. The bitter agony of defeat. Yep, these cliches are the staple elements of a football formula flick...
...Bush (R) became Florida Governor with ads chiding Lieutenant Governor Buddy MacKay (D) for his position on taxes. Teachers, cops and the elderly declare, "He's not my Buddy!" The one kind word? A crook thanks MacKay for increasing taxes on burglar alarms...
...portrayal of a President who seems cunning but emotionally vacant, a man wasting his talents and powers on an empty affair with a woman who was in many ways still a child. Public revulsion may yet drive Clinton from office--not because he has been proved a Nixonian crook but because he has been proved an X-rated cartoon...
Three great presidential lies: I am not a crook. I will never lie to you. I did not have sexual relations with that woman...
...like most politicians--like most people--the President is much less proficient with the categorical lie. Surely his crook-fingered, squinty-eyed, gravel-voiced denial of sex with "that woman," repeated like a tape loop on TV, looks less persuasive in retrospect. And recall his answer, after the Troopergate story broke, to the straightforward question "So none of this is true?" He was quiet for a full 10 seconds. "I have nothing else to say," he said at last. "We, we did, if, the, the, I, I, the stories are just as they have been said. They're outrageous...