Word: outspokenness
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With President Clinton looking vulnerable after the Democrats' trouncing last week, a pack of emboldened GOP presidential hopefuls for '96 are already poking their heads out of the underbrush -- and revealing some internal party dissension. Today, Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, an outspoken loyalist during the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, announced the formation of an exploratory committee to test the waters, while Texas Sen. Phil Gramm said Sunday he was filing the paperwork necessary to begin his candidacy. Expect backbiting soon: Specter, a moderate, took a swipe at the religious right ("they advocate intolerance"), while Gramm, on NBC's "Meet...
...focused on songs that were dreamy and tender. Their new CD shows they can handle tougher rock -- Zombie, a track that deals with violence in Northern Ireland, swaggers along with snarling guitar power chords. "This album is a bit more experimental," says O'Riordan, 23. "And a bit more outspoken...
...Connor has already gone way past outspoken. Since releasing her first album in 1987, she has ripped up a picture of the Pope on national TV, engaged in a war of words with Frank Sinatra and accused her mother of stomping on her belly to try to burst her uterus. But her controversies do seem to make her music all the more varied and pungent, and no one can dispute that O'Connor has an astonishing voice. Her new album, Universal Mother, starts not a little acrimoniously with the grinding, pulsating Fire on Babylon, in which the singer again attacks...
Unfortunately, Roosevelt is hardly a better choice. He has shown his political ineptitude most notably in his outspoken opposition to a New Bedford casino, a project that both Weld and the vast majority of state residents support...
When the diplomatic equivalent of a bar fight threatened to break out last week in the United Nations Security Council, Bill Clinton's most outspoken foreign-policy official unblinkingly held her own. The ruckus was touched off by Saddam Hussein's chief emissary, Tariq Aziz, who accused the U.S. of ignoring Iraq's good behavior and maliciously refusing to lift an economic embargo against Baghdad. Since less than a fortnight earlier Baghdad had menaced Kuwait with more than 80,000 troops, Aziz's remark was disingenuous, if not absurd. The task of pointing this out fell to Madeleine Albright...