Word: rigor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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George Bush never faced these problems squarely, although his words always sounded sweet. In seeking to give content to his rhetoric, Clinton is on the right track. What's left for the President now is to bring the "rigor" he has sworn to apply to "everything I do" to programs of great potential but uneven results; what's left, to use Clinton's words, is to finally "do it smart...
Trends have a way of getting started in California, sneered at by the rest of the world, then adopted overseas with rigor. Such has been the case with the war on cigarettes, for years dismissed by Europeans as petty, provincial and puritanical. Nowadays France and other nations are fast catching up with serious no-smoking curbs of their...
...authors who penned the parody for the spoof issue, third-year law student Craig B. Coben and Ken Fenyo, called their article the He-Manifesto of Post-Mortem Legal Feminism." Their article was signed, "Mary Doe, Rigor-Mortis Professor...
Altman may be a genius, but linear analytical rigor is not his thing. He lives and works amid a genial hurly-burly, with room for all kinds of stray inspirations and serendipitous touches to worm their way into his movies. What Altman pursues is not looseness for its own sake, but surprise -- both for himself and for moviegoers: he didn't know beforehand the tics and shadings performers like Lyle Lovett and Whoopi Goldberg (who play police officers) would bring to their characters, for instance, and the movie-within-a-movie surprise he gives the audience near...
...Revue piece, titled "He-Manifesto ofPost-Mortem Legal Feminist" and signed by "MayDoe, Rigor-Mortis Professor of Law," was intendedas a parody of an article by Frug printedposthumously in the Law review in March...