Word: nods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Senator from either side of the aisle to name the reigning king of Washington's money game--the lawmaker who symbolizes what most people can't stand about the process--and Al D'Amato will get the nod. His new prominence derives from his simultaneous hold on three top positions: chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, head of Bob Dole's presidential steering committee and chief of the G.O.P. organization that raises money for Senate candidates. Those responsibilities give him fund-raising clout that is unrivaled--and, many critics say, unsavory--and make him one of the most powerful politicians...
...that actress that just got married to Tom Cruise." Three years later, it has and she is. "After I got the part, I read the book and I thought 'Oh my God. This is so strange,'" says NICOLE KIDMAN, the wife in question. The character who gave her the nod is a mariticidal lunatic, but Kidman was flattered. "Even though Suzanne's totally wild and has a completely different moral code from the rest of us, I think there was something really cool about her." It's a unique perspective, but then Kidman says she also really liked...
That's not red meat for the right, and it might cause Dole some trouble on the road to the nomination. But it reflects the majority view and improves his ultimate prospects. "Look," says Dole, "first, it's what I believe. And second, getting the party nod is nice, but it doesn't mean much if in the end you don't get to live in the big house...
...THIS. THIS IS THE GREATEST INVENTION," Mariann Raftery says loudly, waving a plastic bag of prepared salad greens in the middle of the local A&P in Scarsdale, an affluent suburb just 15 miles north of New York City. Seven well-dressed Japanese women, pens poised over notebooks, nod politely, not entirely sure what to make of this latest piece of American ingenuity. "It's so convenient," Raftery explains. "And now they have cole slaw too." But there are so many more mysteries to ponder at the A&P. Michiko Takai wants to know: "Which are most popular for children...
...televised indictment of Radovan Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian Serbs, might have caused my venom to rise to near-O.J. levels. But a printed account allows me to nod in agreement, concur that these men should have been captured earlier and that they are wrong. If I saw it on TV, though, I might yell at these slimebags and call for our government to crush them. Thank god for my health that the cable broke...