Word: master
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Horace Bushnell and voila (pardon my French), instant history. As details trickle out about Lawrence, we all say how could we not know? Those selling ambassadorships, of course, don't want to know. And it's in the nature of lying that the victim remain fooled. Lawrence was a master. He took his lie to his grave...
...Thomas E. Crooks '49, who served as Dudley House master from 1963 to 1972, says that he never bothered to count the number of children who visited him on a daily basis in his office. He says that meeting an undergraduate with a child or a family was not an unusual part...
...example, the least effective bite-size phrase of Gore's career: "No controlling legal authority," a snippet of legalese he picked up from his counsel, Charles Burson, and repeated seven times during his disastrous March money-scandal press conference.) Gore has spent the past six years studying the master, trying to break Clinton's seamless performance into component parts he can make his own. But Clinton's gifts are as irreducible as a sunset; Gore has not picked them up yet, and he won't. "He does the steps," says former presidential adviser Dick Morris, "but he doesn't hear...
...This guy, a writer named Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson), can't even think about gays, blacks, Jews, Hispanics, women or little sick kids without making an acid slur. But long before the end of As Good As It Gets, the buoyant new bauble from TV- and movie-comedy master James L. Brooks (the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Terms of Endearment), Melvin is converted; he realizes that this woman, with her aggrieved look and a tongue as sharp as Cheddar, is his redeemer. He gulps hard and tells her, "You make me want to be a better...
...horror theme. D'Angelo does the best job with his cover of "She's Always In My Hair," written by the Artist Formerly Known as Prince. He sings hypnotically while the backing music provides the ultimate in sublime background for a slasher movie. The movie's theme "Scream," by Master P featuring Sukk the Shocker, presents a wailing cry for help, obviously fitting into Wes Craven's attempt to bring the horror movie genre into mainstream pop culture. Most humorously, the Kottonmouth King's "Suburban Life" recreates the spirit of idiotic teenage angst that hasn't been so perfectly dealt...