Word: pooh-pooh
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...arrived clad in a form-fitting purple dress, hand in hand with Brown--the two have reconciled after a recent separation--she seemed ready for a camera to swoop down for an adoring close-up. Yet she also flashed some feisty homegirl attitude. "People think I'm Miss Prissy Pooh-Pooh, but I'm not; I like to have fun," she says, jabbing a finger in the air. "I can get down, really freakin' dirty with you. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, with two brothers and a very strong father. It made me tough--perhaps...
...yank President Clinton's legislative agenda out of the gutter lane. In his first 24 hours as White House chief of staff, the former budget director and congressional powerhouse held cloakroom negotiations with Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan on Clinton's troubled health care package, went on TV to pooh-pooh a weekend poll showing sinking approval ratings, then staged a lunch for 40 reporters to push Clinton's well-received crime and welfare reform bills. TIME White House correspondent Michael Duffy says Panetta is moving quickly to clarify the stakes for the president this year. "If they...
...Tsongas' critique. He admitted that his plan was mostly symbolic. Political exigencies, he explained, required his signaling sympathy for the economically stressed. For public consumption, a rationale beyond sympathy is needed. So with a straight face and a fair amount of feigned indignation, Clinton regularly swipes at those who pooh-pooh his idea. "That $350 a year may not sound like much," says Clinton, "but for many, it's a month's mortgage payment -- and that's nothing to sneeze at." Suffice it to say that in New Hampshire, where the economy has moved from recession to depression...
...want to pooh-pooh what happened, because we did try to play it as much as a real game as we could," defensive coordinator George Clemens said, "but we were very, very bland on Saturday...
Such was the skepticism surrounding the wispy accord that the U.S. and its allies did not so much as pause in their efforts to establish a safe haven for the Kurds in northern Iraq. Said a U.S. official about the agreement: "We can't welcome it. We can't pooh-pooh it. So we're extremely neutral." However, if the detente reached in Baghdad sticks, it may yet serve the allies' interests. If a final pact prompts the displaced Kurds to return to their homes, it would relieve the allies of the enormous difficulties they face in trying...