Word: feint
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...White House announcement last Friday lends itself to many interpretations, each carrying its own degree of cynicism: Was it a good-faith effort by Clinton to cut through the thicket of circumstantial evidence, Secret Service recollections and secondhand testimony by offering a firsthand account? Or was it a feint to give the appearance of cooperation and compliance that will ensure that Starr gets the blame when the President ultimately refuses to talk...
...WORLD, June 1]? I'll believe it when I see it. Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, may have changed his tune, but others have not. Ask me 30 years from now whether this was a watershed or just another "Sinn Feint." FLASH FIASCO Mannheim, Germany...
Even as the President last week was sweet-talking big Democratic Party donors into pledging $250,000 each, the Clinton Administration was readying a new feint on the campaign-finance front: trying to reverse the Supreme Court's landmark 1976 ruling, Buckley v. Valeo, which held that limits on candidates' spending infringe on their free speech. Last fall Clinton boosted his efforts to pass the McCain-Feingold bill that would curb soft money and give candidates cheap TV time, but now it's pretty much dead. Two weeks ago, he asked the Federal Election Commission to ban soft money...
...wife has since died of cancer. Then, after some getting-reacquainted sex, the fissures reappear. He complains dismissively about her freezing flat ("You can take hostages and tell them this is Beirut"); she excoriates him for not appreciating her work as an inner-city teacher. This predictable feint at class conflict, however, doesn't bring to life a relationship that fails ever to involve us. Why were these two together in the first place? Could they ever be together again? These are questions we don't walk away asking; this well-crafted, unsurprising play closes a circle before we have...
...Reagan years, though discretionary spending dropped by more than a third, not a single major federal spending program was eliminated. Republicans were still unwilling to embrace Goldwater's frank and fatally unpopular rejection of the big-budget entitlements like Social Security and Medicare. (When the G.O.P. Congress made a feint at Medicare last year, its approval rating plummeted.) The predictable result was a massive increase in the federal deficit, $1.5 trillion over eight years, and a crisis that reopened the split between supply-siders and fiscal conservatives like Dole and George Bush. To this day, movement conservatives resent Dole...