Word: notionalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Friends and aides reject the notion that Clinton is primarily on a mission for atonement and redemption. Even the long-planned trip to Vietnam, the first ever by a U.S. President to the unified country and the capstone of his steady and little-noticed effort to normalize relations, has less to do with personal redemption than generational healing, say friends. "He feels the baby boomers never quite closed the circle, and he can do that," says one. Clinton himself, asked if he's somehow using his frenetic schedule to try to wash away his mistakes, answers both...
...Florida ruckus, thanks to his role as Clinton's "bad cop" during the budget battles and government shutdowns of 1995. That's why Gore now would have to find someone to play bad cop for him, so he could rise above the fray and try to enlarge the notion of his presidency in the public mind. Nominees for the bad-cop job include Lieberman and Daschle, both of whom have a way with the velvet hammer. It would give Lieberman something to do, because nobody around Gore would expect this control-freak President to give his Vice President as much...
...Eight drafts!" says Geisel. "There was much I didn't like." On her no-no list was what she calls "sexual" humor that showed up in some drafts. Like what? "Oh, creating a furball," she answers, so disgusted by the notion that she refuses to elaborate. "She was really tough on me for a year and a half," says Grazer, "and I wanted to please this woman." Finally, when Geisel saw the finished film, she spoke to the producer with tears in her eyes: "Ted would have loved it so much...
...opposition to the popular notion that conceptualism is dry and hyper-intellectual, the curators are careful to pick pieces which display a range of emotions. Many of the pieces in the show, for instance, are disarmingly comical: like Vincent Trasov's campaign for mayor as Mr. Peanut, or Goran Trbuljak's photograph of a door with the inscription, "From time to time I stuck my finger through a hole in the door of the Modern Art Gallery without the management's knowledge." Others, like Nomura Hitoshi's "'Moon' Score" (a piece of music written to the phases of the moon...
...something close to the Platonic ideal of counting everybody, whereas the Republicans are more laissez-faire about it; their attitude is, those who don't care to be counted, or don't bother to punch a hole with any precision, don't really deserve to be counted. Their notion is, You've got to earn that franchise by at least following instructions. The Democrats response is, the thought should be the father to the deed and if we have to read voters's minds, so be it. That's what Democrats mean by "the intent of the people...