Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Dan Quayle assailed Murphy Brown last year, it marked perhaps the nadir of recent American political discourse. It offered little prospect of being surpassed either in oddity or stupidity. Bill Clinton's famous saxophone performance on the Arsenio Hall show plumbed similar depths, but perhaps it could be excused by the exigencies of the presidential campaign...
...disc reaches its emotional nadir with Sweetness Follows, in which Stipe ponders the death of loved ones, and Everybody Hurts, an anti-suicide lullaby. Clearly ambivalent about his and the band's new status as pop icon, Stipe seems to be mourning nothing less than a loss of innocence. "I'm sure all those people understand/ It's not like years before," he sings in Nightswimming. "The fear of getting caught/ The recklessness of water/ They cannot see me naked...
...field of power, since they have power nowhere else. Thus the arts become an arena for complaint about rights. The result is a gravely distorted notion of the political capacity of the arts, just at the moment when -- because of the pervasiveness of mass media -- they have reached their nadir of real political effect...
...stepped-up Japanese purchases of American auto parts belittled the presidency and made him seem the tool of overpaid corporate CEOs? Or that the largely unenforceable agreements he reached were soon denounced as inadequate by the U.S. automobile executives who accompanied him on the journey? Or did the nadir come when the President threw up on the trousers of Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa and then passed out at a state dinner in Tokyo...
...economy is by far Bush's weakest spot. In a TIME/CNN poll conducted Jan. 2, only 24% of those surveyed think the President is doing a good job handling the economy, which is up from a nadir of 18% in late November but still lopsided. According to 84% of those polled, the recession is still going on in the area where they live. A ray of hope has emerged in the past month, though, possibly tied to interest-rate cuts and the stock-market rally. Those who think the economy will improve in the next 12 months have grown...