Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your otherwise fine article on new theories about the universe reinforces the popular notion that scientists are muddling buffoons who grasp at the thinnest of straws to support their pet ideas. Science at the cutting edge is always controversial, and only with time are conflicting ideas resolved into what we call truth. We often forget that civilization is held together by a framework of scientific achievement, every piece of which was once controversial...
...husband using your career to try to take the kids away. Mothers with high-powered jobs like Marcia Clark, the prosecutor in the O.J. Simpson case, may have the most to worry about. In a flurry of recent custody battles, women who don't conform to the Donna Reed notion of motherhood have lost custody to men who slightly exceed Homer Simpson's idea of fatherhood...
...Branford Marsalis comes from a family of jazz greats. He is as well-trained and experienced as any saxophone player today, but unlike the rest of his family, he does not believe that "jazz" music is determined by whether or not it swings, bops or adheres to any general notion of "canonical jazz." That's why you hear him playing alongside Sting, Bruce Hornsby and The Grateful Dead, and in front of "The Tonight Show" band and now Buckshot LeFonque...
Beating the Republicans still meant opposing a popular notion, though nobody on the Democratic side is saying out loud the words Pyrrhic victory. "It's a big victory," figures one senior White House official. "We'll pay for it later, of course." Or sooner-one day after the vote, G.O.P. radio ads were running in the states of six Democrats who supported the amendment when it came to a vote two years ago but changed sides this time. Since none of the six face re-election next year, they can brush off the attacks for now. But one Senate Democrat...
There is still something startling about that, the notion that Bill Clinton has been President. He is 48, in the middle of a life defined by running for office, and by the ambition to occupy the White House. Yet he has now begun his last campaign. And he does it having to combat the perception that his time has already passed. Nevertheless, says Mack McLarty, one of Clinton's oldest friends and now a counselor to the President, "he feels quite hopeful. He's not frustrated or blue or disappointed. He has an ability to adapt, to figure...