Word: kneeing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What make WASP maleness so different? The knee-jerk liberal answer, white male hegemony, doesn't explain it all. Note that the women complaining about the Boston clubs weren't saying the men excluded them from the power networks; in fact, many women said, the men were quite welcoming. No, it was the culture that turned them off, not because it was sexist like the Tailhook Convention but simply because it reminded them of men bonding together without women...
...whopping $1.5 million budget to register voters in the final weeks of the race. Some Clinton campaign officials are fuming about it, but more seasoned Jackson watchers on the campaign see it another way. They argue that Clinton has established much by coming this far without bending his knee to the reverend. Since Clinton has a big lead and plenty of money, it is better to pay now, financing radio ads and travel for Jackson, than to wonder if he will start some divisive -- and expensive -- sulking in the homestretch...
...first blush, Bush's plan strikes a chord: few who deal with the government regularly have a good word for those they encounter. On reflection, though, the President's scheme is a heartless swipe at a defenseless group of dedicated civil servants, designed to capture the knee-jerk support of an economically strapped electorate. "It may not be good policy," concedes a Bush adviser, "but it's damn good politics...
Without starting setter, Co-Captain Jennifer Garcia, who was sidelined due to a knee injury, the team dropped its fourth straight match. It is currently 2-4 in non league play...
That mouth, impish or hellacious, is where Whoopi Goldberg goes one up on the world. Twist it, she's a funny little troll. Smile like the Queen of Sheba, she is the Queen of Sheba, a knee-weakening beauty (don't doubt it; like Meryl Streep, who's also less than a stunner, Whoopi can play beauty). Shove out her jaw, she's a bad-mouth male junkie -- yeah, name's Fontaine, attitude's his game, what's your problem? Flash that 82-toothed thousand- watter, time to watch your wallet. Smile shyly, she's a little kid, you want...