Word: hollow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bush did manage to beat Clinton to the punch on Wednesday (by all of 21 minutes) but even that "victory" struck some of the President's more astute aides as hollow. "Either we should have beaten Clinton by at least one news cycle or we should have waited a few days," says a Bush political adviser. "As it was, all we did was pump up the opposition," par for the course for a campaign organization that has yet to get its bearings...
...paintingthe soles with glue. A minute talking is a minutelost. Within reach are the tools of his trade:knives, pliers, punch, awl, pincers, hammers.There are a score of old shoe-boxes filled withvarious grades and thicknesses of leather andrubber. There is a box of scraps used to fill upthe hollow chambers is the heel of a woman's shoe...
...cold war is over and the West has won, but the victory will seem hollow if the peace is lost. The fulfillment of the policy course set in the 1940s arrives not when Russia is on the brink of collapse, but when it enters the community of democratic free-market nations. The communist system has been defeated, but that is no guarantee that Russia will become a lot more liberal and a lot more democratic than it has ever been in its thousand years of history. Which is where the West must come in. The timing may not be ideal...
...Japanese internment survivors, and for the victims of recent anti-Asian hate crimes, the usual explanations for racial violence and discrimination ring hollow. The standard refrain--that racial scapegoating happens when our economy goes sour--seems like just another glib justification for pain and injustice...
Startling and tremendous women alone save this book. Pearlman and Henderson's touchy-feely treatment of them and their work, their careless use of therapeutic terms like "passive-aggressive," their forced, hollow intimacy with these women--all are hugely regressive and condescending. The authors seem unable to conceive of these women as true thinkers and artists, and instead approach their writing as though it were therapy for the women writers and, indeed, for all women. Pearlman and Henderson see the writers largely as domestic creatures, concerned primarily with matters of heart and hearth. They have broadened their definition...