Word: proclaimer
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...this Mariah Carey anyway? After seven years, seven albums and 12 number one singles, she has yet to carve out any specific identity or consistent persona. Her detractors say she is always the same insipid thrush. Her fans proclaim the virtues of "her voice" or "her songs," but rarely champion her. Even her critical reception has veered wildly between casual enthusiasm (1995's multi-Grammy-nominated Daydream) to outright damnation (1991's Emotions is consistently named her worst effort...
...bottom line is that the campaign is a misfire, full of mixed messages. The last line of the essay in TV Guide, just after the celebration of cerebral-free non-activity, asks the reader to "climb the highest figurative mountaintop and proclaim, with all the vigor and shrillness that made Roseanne a household name, that TV is good." But "Roseanne," an ABC success that ended its run last season, always required a cerebrum for optimum enjoyment...
Some have asked, Where are the geographical limits to NATO expansion? The right answer is, Let's see--and let's not be in a rush to proclaim new limits. To draw a new line on the map would be a betrayal of the alliance's shared vision of an undivided, increasingly integrated Europe...
...felt a humanitarian urge to help." So he gave the demonstrators money, medicine and tents and went home. But then, he says, "I couldn't stand it when they started shooting. I found that unforgivable." So he mustered workers in Shenzhen to go out into the streets and proclaim that the crackdown was wrong. Local authorities blacklisted him for a year, his friends admonished him, and he even criticized himself. "I did something wrong," he muses now. "As a chairman of the board I was a symbol, not just an individual. So I should have stepped down before I protested...
...wakeboarding has its own magazine, a pro circuit and enough converts to proclaim itself among the fastest-growing sports in the country. It even has its own Tiger Woods: Parks Bonifay, 15, of Lake Alfred, Fla. As his mother dried him off after he won the wakeboarding gold medal at the 1996 X Games sponsored by ESPN, Bonifay declared his victory "the best moment of my life." The kid, like his sport, has still bigger things ahead. He defends his title in June...