Word: naggings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BOSNIA, SOMALIA, SADDAM HUSSEIN -- THEY'LL ALL BE Bill Clinton's problems next week. And they'll be the easy ones. Not even the thornier foreign issues that await the new President will nag as much as the nation's domestic economic troubles, the continuing crisis Bill Clinton has been elected to solve. As the deficit climbs, it is hard to know who is telling the truth, who should be blamed (if anyone), and harder still to get a fix on what exactly Clinton plans to do -- largely because the President-elect is enjoying the honeymoon that all newly elected...
...which barely excuses tirades like "Evil Dick," a disillusioning, slow-moving song about Ice-T's inability to control himself, at least sexually speaking. Ice-T sings "Evil dick/Evil dick" at least twenty times (which pales in comparison to his innumerable usage of "motherfucker," but we won't nag him)--and we wonder how he can be so adamant about self-control in race relations but still permit himself to be dragged around by his independently-minded appendages. Which, of course, does not for a second detract from how cool the music...
Imagine your mother on stage. She always has something to nag you about and she makes a point of shouting it loud enough so you can hear it even in the back row. Now imagine that she does this all nicely, throwing in a song and dance to make you laugh...
...waited until last month to assign the task to Andrew Card, a Sununu deputy with little congressional savvy. Already facing opposition in the Senate, Gates, whose confirmation hearings begin next week, will find the going even tougher as questions about the agency's role in Iran-contra continue to nag...
...grabbed a beer and took a quiet moment to calmly assess the job he coveted. "You work your ass off, get credit for stuff you're barely involved in and none at all for things you've put together behind the scenes. Domestic problems drag you down and nag all the time. You're up in the polls and down and then up again. But sooner or later something major happens, something abroad that only we ((the U.S.)) can do something about. Then you show if you can cut it. If you can't, everything else can be going beautifully...