Word: meant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lott spun in place and called for a vote on whether to let the bill come to the floor, knowing full well that McCain did not have the 60 votes he would need. And with that, any chance of passing a comprehensive bill died, stalling the engine that was meant to power the last two years of the Clinton presidency...
...secretary why she didn't give her a birthday present--these are all mysteries. Ally probably wouldn't seem so offensive as an addition to the cast of Seinfeld, but because this is a one-hour drama filled with pseudo-Melissa Etheridge music and emotional pretense, we are meant to take her problems more seriously than George Costanza's. "Ally McBeal is a mess. She's like a little animal," notes Nancy Friday, a sex-positive feminist if ever there was one. "You want to put her on a leash." And what does Ally's creator David Kelley have...
Even those feminists who don't necessarily embrace Paglia's world view seem to have inherited the postfeminist tic of offering up autobiography as theory. A 1995 anthology of young feminist thought, To Be Real, compiled by Rebecca Walker, is a collection of airy--sometimes even ludicrous--mini-memoirs meant to expand our understanding of female experience. She introduces the material by explaining that she first felt guilty about putting together such an introspective, apolitical book. But, Walker says, she resisted the pressure "to make a book I really wasn't all that desperate to read." An essay by Veena...
Then there is the matter of Bust, the hip magazine of the moment. Created by Debbie Stoller, a 35-year-old who holds a doctorate in women's studies from Yale, and Marcelle Karp, a 34-year-old TV producer, Bust is a magazine intentionally written in teenspeak but meant for female readers in their late 20s and early 30s. It was developed as an antidote to magazines like Cosmopolitan, which present female sexuality so cartoonishly. However noble the intent, the message is often lost in the magazine's adolescent tone: read about an adult woman's first-time vibrator...
...nerve gas on Iraqi warheads seemingly settles one debate -- yes, Iraq's VX production had advanced sufficiently before the Gulf War that it could arm missiles with the deadly gas. But the Pentagon knew that weeks ago; the leak that landed the report in today's Washington Post was meant to remind the U.N. anew that Iraq is still not to be dealt with honestly. "It looks like it came straight from the Pentagon," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell, "timed to turn up the pressure on UNSCOM on the day before Richard Butler addresses the Security Council...