Word: plainness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead he proved anew that he was, as elections expert James Thurber of American University in Washington put it, just plain "weird." For most of 1996 he gave lip service to his advisers' words that the election "is not about me." But a day after former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm announced that he would seek the Reform Party's nomination, Perot entered the race and proved that it really was about him. And by accepting $29 million in taxpayer money to fund his general-election campaign--just like any other pol--he undermined his credibility both as an outsider...
...this is my first campaign, and I feel myself as on a darkling plain," she went on, struggling to control her emotions. "All my life, I have dreamt of joining you to chronicle these great romantic battles. Even as a child I read myself to sleep with the works of Theodore White. And I do not understand what is happening. Look!" she cried, brandishing a sheet of paper...
Pittsburgh--you failed to sell out a playoff game. Houston--I'm still bitter about those horizontally-striped uniforms from the eighties. Seattle--you beat the Yankees too much. Milwaukee--you're just plain pathetic...
...denigrating wisdom, virtue and even merit--all severe, undemocratic notions--and in elevating sheer experience, which even the meanest can contribute to and appreciate. While wisdom, virtue and merit are hard to achieve and discern, experience is easy to assert and acquire. Yet because of the superficiality of plain experience, one needs it in great quantity and variety to appear impressive and interesting. So like everything else democratic, the democratic university is not focused and deep but expansively broad and various...
First the doctors were warning all of us about the artery-clogging dangers of plain old cholesterol. Then we had to start keeping track of "good cholesterol" and "bad cholesterol." Now comes the latest complication: really bad cholesterol. Its scientific name is lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), and after years of preliminary evidence, researchers have now firmly established just how bad it is. A study published in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association says high levels of Lp(a) in the blood can double a man's risk of having a heart attack before...