Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Burton offered no evidence for his complaint that the White House was behind the story, a notion that a spokeswoman for Vanity Fair dismissed as "ludicrous." And the charge gave senior Clinton adviser Rahm Emanuel the happy chance to deny it with the observation that the White House considers the private life of public figures to be "off limits." But a collective chill went across the capital. "There is real anxiety among House Republicans," says a G.O.P. leadership source. "They realize that none of us is without sin. And most of them are obscure; they've never had to deal...
...months ago, with the Dow at 6500, Greenspan was warning against "irrational exuberance" in the stock market. Several other wise elders expressed hope that last week's correction will have the cleansing effect of strengthening the historic relationship between stock valuations and the earnings of the underlying companies--a notion that had fallen out of favor after years of "momentum investing," in which all that mattered was that someone would buy the hot stock that some greater fool would soon bid up to an even higher price. The price-earnings ratio for the S&P 500 has approached a record...
...First, the very notion of spin implies a kind of moral neutrality in which any issue is subject to a variety of interpretations, all of equal legitimacy. My spin is that two plus two is four; your spin is that two plus two is five. After this break, we'll be joined by a woman who says that two plus two is three. Second, like drug addiction it gets worse over time because we build up a tolerance. Artifice that seemed outrageous during the Carter Administration seems routine today--not because the Clinton folks are inherently less honest, but just...
...most poignant of all confrontations with truth is confession. Yet in his nationally televised confrontation with truth, Clinton revealed a notion of truth as endlessly self-reflecting as a fun-house mirror. It has the vertiginous feel of Epimenides' paradox, which (in one version) reads, "All Cretans are liars. I am a Cretan. Therefore I am a liar." (But, of course, if I am a liar, I'm lying about being a liar, and thus I'm not.) The lies-feeding-lies circularity is deeply disturbing. You feel you can never climb...
...media find their way back to a more restrained standard for when private conduct matters? For years the working notion has been that while an affair isn't news, a pattern of affairs and evasions may point to a recklessness that is important enough to report. If time passes and a majority of Americans continue to support the notion that Clinton's Oval Office liaisons are "nobody's business," however, it will be a clear invitation for the media to back off. But in the hypercompetitive news business, no one's handing out merit badges for restraint...