Word: poohed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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, most Democratic...
...betrays a weakness of character -- a lack of grace, and guts, under pressure. His campaign for re-election hasn't even got tough. So far he faces opposition from a conservative pundit and TV talking head who has never run for dogcatcher, a former Nazi and Ku Klux Klan Pooh-Bah who was recently rejected by the good people of Louisiana, and a Democratic field that has yet to close ranks behind a compelling candidate or a coherent platform. Yet already Bush is running scared. Even when he is more than 5,000 miles from the nearest primary state...
...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...
...those ideas that sound cute until you see it in action, at which point you wish you'd never heard of it. The TV family members are portrayed so broadly that they go beyond parody into the realm of condescending camp. Mom offers everybody fudge and says "Oh, pooh!" when she gets upset. Dad smokes a pipe and thinks a woman's place is in the kitchen. The jokes are moronic: the '50s mom tries to use 1990s lingo with malaprop results ("My, don't you look squirrelly," she says, meaning "foxy"). And when the punkish '90s kid asks...
...periodically, a conga line of guys in net stockings and bras erupts, followed by a very male little old lady in a granny dress, carrying a purse), the Contradiction Koffee Kitchen, the No Guns Tipi, the Positively Peaceful Anti- Natural Flatfood Forum (pancakes here), the Om Tea House and Pooh Corner (a latrine). Lovin' Ovens gives away bread, and Julie, Dianne and Danielle, from Quebec, help you choose a flower essence to improve your cellular vibrations...