Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This isn't simply a campaign problem. Successful Presidents govern through persuasion. The educating skills one needs to win the job are required to conduct it forcefully, which is why the BMW nonevent is so disturbing. Yet it confirms Dole's disdain for the bully pulpit. When he ran in 1988, Dole said, "The press always wants me to have a vision. If I had one, you'd say it was no good. So I've thought about the 'Vision of the Month Club.' I'd have one for spring and one for the fall just for the media...
MUSIC . . . THE TROUBLE WITH THE TRUTH: "Misery loves country," says TIME's Richard Corliss. But even in a musical genre that tries to put a pang in every twang, Patty Loveless stands out. "Loveless has a purity, a disdain for emotional compromise, that sets her above the standard ingratiators." Patty sings the truth and serves it up raw. So it makes sense that her gorgeous, pulverizing new CD is called 'The Trouble with the Truth.' And what is the trouble? As the title song, by Gary Nicholson, tells us: 'It has ruined the taste of the sweetest lies,/ Burned through...
...science and the mysteries of our universe. Together, we'll explore them. I also know that the beauty of the arts, the glory of books and the delights of entertainment are what make our time on this planet so magical. TIME's criticism must be sharp, and its disdain for shallowness and degradation keen, because that is the truest way to show how much we care about the quality of our culture...
...Lesson is a short play (one hour long) ostensibly about a high-strung professor and his too-eager pupil. From the beginning of the play we get a sense of the ominous, as the professor's maid ushers in the fresh-faced girl with a look of disdain and a note of warning...
Gito tells Christine, his Parisian girlfriend, that she can join him after be obtains the position as cabinet minister. When be arrives at the airport, his family greets him proudly, but be looks at his old-fashioned parents with barely hidden disdain. He refuses his brother's hospitality and checks into a hotel. Flora, his childhood sweetheart, reunites with him and rekindles their romance...