Word: karens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Administration had produced faux-news segments in which an actor portraying a reporter touts the benefits of the contentious new Medicare bill that had only just narrowly passed through Congress. Two of the videos end with the reporter signing off, “In Washington, I’m Karen Ryan reporting.” Committed to propagandizing equally to all persons, regardless of ethnicity or national origin, the Administration also produced a third video narrated in Spanish and featuring the hard-hitting reporting of “Alberto Garcia.” The White House then distributed the three...
...unhealthily tall and skinny image. What was surprising, however, was the fact that the pictures of impossibly thin, bikini-clad models appeared just pages away from an article discussing the serious battle against anorexia and bulimia fought by one of the most prominent of these models, Karen Elson. Evidently, writing about body problems was one thing, but actually compromising the glamour factor of the magazine by featuring “real women” was another consideration altogether...
...among his staff. But few doubt he is the force behind the Times's renaissance, achieved at a time when editors of two rival papers showed just how precarious the job can be. In the past year, two of his peers--Howell Raines at the New York Times and Karen Jurgensen at USA Today--had to resign because of scandals in their newsrooms...
...convention," says Democratic pollster Mark Penn, who helped Bill Clinton frame his middle-of-the-road image. "You either come out with a centrist message or you don't." Kerry advisers insist their man will take a centrist course right through November. --By Perry Bacon Jr. and Karen Tumulty...
...icons last year. "Designers are looking for different lines." If the recent Fashion Week in Sydney is any guide, they are increasingly looking to menswear. New labels popped up as frequently as gelled '80s hairdos while, taking a cue from international crossover stars like Jil Sander, Helmut Lang and Karen Walker, New Zealand's Zambesi joined Akira in showing its first men's line. Where once "over in the corner was a lonely little rack called menswear," notes Sydney style maven Belinda Seper, these days "it's part of the same market. The lines are blurring...