Word: masse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), interviewed with Biden on the NBC-TV "Today" show, said Bush "has a number of fronts where there are major opportunities. Clearly, the Soviet Union and east-west relations is one, moving on human rights, trade, regional conflict resolution and arms control...
Each entrant is equipped with a simulated brokerage account containing $500,000. The investors place orders by calling a toll-free number that puts them in touch with student "brokers" in Wellesley, Mass., who record the transactions based on the latest stock quotes. The investor who earns the most by Feb. 28 wins $25,000 in real money and a trip to the Bahamas...
Trooping to the showers, the talk is of the weekend and not the battles ahead. "Just a couple of wins, and a lot of us will be happy," offers Trey Cowan, a tackle valued most for his critical mass: 310 lbs. Ziegler sees it another way: "We're S.M.U. We're expected to win. So we will." But if that doesn't happen, well, there are things almost as important as the stats. Like just being on the field at Notre Dame. "All that tradition," he says. "You can't help getting pumped up." The final score, he and others...
...commercials, "likability" and so on -- will switch gears on Election Day and begin interpreting the "message" of the election in the most grandiose philosophical terms. Reports of the candidates' strategies for appealing to various groups or regions of the country will be replaced by theories about what an undifferentiated mass called "the people" was trying to say. These theories will often be of such exotic sophistication that no single one of the people, let alone all of the people, could possibly have thought of them before voting...
...Dark insists on cutting away from the Chamberlains' personal drama to show, efficiently and effectively, how mass journalism, ever in search of uncomplicated images, feeds the mass mind's need for simple ideas. It is also savagely critical of expert forensic witnesses in criminal cases. In short, it is a movie relentlessly true to its own belief that what is too quickly grasped may be misunderstood. Streep's performance is in that vein, awesomely tough-minded. No actress has ever played a victim more austerely. Flat-voiced, pinching off every temptation to high drama, she refuses to force this character...