Word: monsterous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Certainly the breathtaking $40 million ad campaign by the tobacco industry left its mark on those voters who were paying attention; just as the health-insurance industry recast Clinton's health-care initiative four years ago as a bureaucratic monster, the tobacco industry successfully reframed the legislation as a Big Government, big-spending, tax-hiking mess. But that effort alone could not have worked if a lot of politicians had not sat down and done the math and found that the poll numbers did not add up the way they had long expected. In the months leading...
Curiously though, as "Mr. Conservative" stuck to his libertarian principles and advocated now-un-conservative positions, he was increasingly ostracized by the conservative monster he had helped create. When he argued for gay rights, abortion rights and a firm separation of church and state, Goldwater's small-minded ideological progeny would shake their hands, allude to Barry's failing health and his younger, more liberal wife. As he related to a National Review editor, "I haven't been invited to speak at the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Committee) for maybe 15 years? You'd think I was on the other...
...that it incorporates the Cuban rhythms, but it has a complexity, a rhythmic complexity, that hasn't hit the U.S.," says Jimmy Durchslag, president of Bembe Records, an independent record label in Redway, Calif., that distributes Cuban music. "It tends to be pretty high energy and frenetic. They have monster chops; they are outrageous performers. The best of the music is incredibly technical and wonderfully creative stuff...
...fans who made him with contempt, refusing even to acknowledge them. As the singer and his burly entourage walked through a Honolulu hotel lobby, I saw Sinatra's bodyguards shove fans aside when they approached. Sinatra's voice was made of gold. The man behind it was a monster. ALAN L. LIGHT Iowa City, Iowa...
...newest movie [CINEMA, May 25], gone are the chubby legs, large round feet and maple-leaf spikes on his spine. Moviemakers have taken away his personality. Remember when he would jump up and down with glee after beating his enemies? He was always there to fight the bad monsters. At the end of one movie, a small boy waved farewell, plaintively calling, "Godzilla. Thanks a lot." The beast acknowledged him in a silent goodbye. It touched my heart. And in Godzilla 85, when the beast was lured into a volcano, I cried and thought, This cannot...