Word: pariah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Baseball abhors a pariah vacuum, so after PETE ROSE received a resoundingly redemptive round of applause before Game Two of the World Series, new villain JIM GRAY burst out of the bull pen. Rose was on hand for his induction into baseball's All Century Team. It was meant to be a happy event. But in a postceremony interview, NBC reporter Gray peppered Rose with questions about his lifetime ban from the sport. Bad call. Angry fans flooded NBC with complaints, and following Game Three, Yankee Chad Curtis snubbed Gray on-air after hitting the game-winning home...
...quiet," says another friend of Solomon's. "You know, like being quiet made him weird in the eyes of that little clique of theirs." Solomon took the teasing hard, and even though he had friends, he seemed to become convinced that he was destined to be the campus pariah--"and that idea kept building inside him until he picked up a gun," says Stacey Singleton...
ROSEANNE Familiar with being a social pariah...
...This moves signifies Iran's determination to end its pariah status and restore normal relations with the world," says MacLeod. Will the U.S. be impressed? "The most important factor in the British decision was the political will on both sides to find a way to restore relations," says MacLeod. "Right now, that's still lacking in both Washington and Tehran...
...speech two weeks ago would never fit on a bumper sticker, though the bombast of a lot of critics allowed him to cast the terms as a choice between foolish isolation and practical engagement. No one who knows foreign policy thinks the U.S. should turn China into a pariah state, and only a handful called for Clinton to cancel his trip...