Word: seems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Experts say round numbers make lists seem more authoritative, attract more publicity, even at risk of stretching point, adding filler...
...bone in their body. In what might be called the Alfred E. Neuman syndrome--after the Mad magazine character whose doofus slogan was "What--me worry?"--people in this group tend to react with shocked innocence when minorities complain about the persistence of unfair treatment. "What--me racist?" they seem to say. "Perish the thought...
...dismembered him. To object to putting King to death for the deed requires a saintliness I do not possess. In one sense, King's case is almost a moral free ride. My conscience would remain untroubled by some other death sentences, but John William King's execution will seem especially just and fitting--and, though it is ghastly to say so, a rather handsome, pivotal American moment...
...look at great portraits today without a certain nostalgia. The painted portrait is a form that, like blank-verse drama in the theater or the caryatid in architecture, would seem to be on its last legs. Indeed, with few exceptions, it has no legs and seems unlikely to grow new ones. Photography took them away. But older portraits have hardly lost their magic and their grip on the imagination. This is why "Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch," which is on view (through April 25) at the National Gallery in London, and will be seen later this year...
Look! There's F.D.R. swimming, Truman on a morning walk and Kennedy chatting with coal miners. The classic pictures and colorful Sidey anecdotes help personalize the Presidents and make history seem so human, which has always been one of our goals at TIME. In America, more than in any other nation, we like to think of our leaders not as mysterious monarchs but as regular neighbors. Walk a few blocks to the old Truman home, and there's his fedora hanging on a rack in the hall where he left it after his last stroll...