Word: icon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter how narrow or broad the question," Cater wrote, "each of them extracted his last second of allotted image projection in making his response." If anything, the candidates have grown more adroit over the years. That is why these political quiz shows have come to resemble that other icon of the TV age -- the Super Bowl: overhyped, overcoached and ultimately underwhelming...
...Pennsylvania, in late September, Al Gore leaned against his orthopedic back pillow, drank bottled water and reflected on the human spirit and his newfound sense of self. How is it that the wooden-tongued policy wonk of 1988 has emerged as an introspective spokesman for the inner child, an icon of the new manhood? Says Gore simply: "I found the connection between my head and my heart...
...indictment and yesterday's arrest of the influential official may mark more than the political demise of an Independent icon. Walsh, whether innocent or guilty, has tarnished the reputation of the Independent camp, a close-knit block on the council that presents itself as the standard-bearer of traditional conservative politics and values...
...former Soviet Foreign Minister and current chairman of the republic's provisional State Council, affairs of state continue nonstop. Seven days a week, from 8:30 a.m. until well after midnight, Shevardnadze is on the job, working the battery of telephones on his desk beneath a silver icon of the madonna and child. On Monday fighting broke out again in the secessionist region of Abkhazia. On Tuesday Russian forces killed several Georgian guardsmen in the Abkhazian capital. Wednesday, hard-line nationalists attempted to open a new front in eastern Georgia. On Thursday Shevardnadze flew to Moscow to negotiate another Abkhazian...
Even more discouraging to Republicans of varying hues is Bush's surrender to the religious right on issues such as abortion, gay rights and pornography. Pro-choice advocates seeking even token concessions came away empty-handed. But they did get some support from yesteryear's conservative icon Barry Goldwater. The former Senator sent a letter from Arizona warning that the "convention will go down in shambles, as will the election," if the party clings to its adamant stand against abortion. Because Bush's most solid constituency now is the religious right, he cannot risk alienating it. Yet one of Bush...