Word: sentiments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...provide more than cursory information. The result, all too often, is a statistically impeccable snapshot of public ignorance and apathy. Presidential candidates then respond to the polls not by striving to present the electorate with worthy policies but by tailoring their appeals to the lowest common denominator of voter sentiment...
...That sentiment is not nearly as evident in the port city of Massawa, which was bombed repeatedly by Mengistu's forces. Few buildings remain whole. Children play in the rubble with toys made from tank parts while abandoned Kalashnikovs rust in the hot, humid air. "What are we free from?" complains Tirhas, 20, a teacher who would not give her full name...
Within the confines of its conventions, the film handles its material fairly honorably. It does not prettify the rigors of cancer treatment, and it does not pump out a cloud of cheap sentiment when things start to go bad for the patient. But if anything redeems Dying Young, it is the playing. Roberts has a bead on the twentysomething spirit -- its curious blend of certainty and confusion -- and Scott catches the inwardness and detachment of a figure astonished to find himself exploring the near side of the far side prematurely. The cool tact of his performance is all the more...
...months ago. The challenge for the 2,000 delegates is how to retake the political initiative that the A.N.C. has lost to De Klerk in the past year. Thanks to his democratic advances, Pretoria's international isolation seems ever closer to an end. Even in the U.S., where antiapartheid sentiment is strong, pressure is building to end the five-year-old economic boycott...
Councillor Edward N. Cyr at the time voiced the prevailing sentiment when he said that although the state's portion of the interstate highway system had become direly outmoded, Z was "just not a good long-term solution...