Word: shadowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...opinion-framing tendencies of the media and to evaluate individually and fairly the First Lady of the United States? The real problem for suspect political figures in general and for Hillary Rodham Clinton in particular is that more often than not, suspicion equals guilt. Once the media casts its shadow of doubt across one's political resume, the practical verdict--namely, how that individual will now be viewed--is sealed...
...shadow of last summer's decision by the Board of Regents of the University of California to repeal affirmative action in the nine-campus system, Rudenstine is almost negligent in his fourth argument for affirmative action. Although he admits that "the potential for unfairness exists," he quickly glosses over that and then reiterates his points that admissions must take into account a wide variety of characteristics and that admissions decisions about individuals must be made in the context of the whole...
YOUR ARTICLE ON JUVENILE CRIME, "NOW for the Bad News: A Teenage Time Bomb" [CRIME, Jan. 15], should have been titled "A Teenage Time Bomb Explodes," because the present is just a shadow of what lies ahead. According to a recent poll, more than 12% of today's teenagers (and 40% of those in high-crime neighborhoods) carry a weapon for protection. Unlike post-Vietnam criminals, who feared prison, police and peers and took care to avoid arrest and notoriety, this new teenage horde from hell kills, maims and terrorizes merely to become known or even sometimes for no reason...
Welles got it. For five years he symbolized America's worship and suspicion of the Artist. He was famous in New York for the Mercury Theater (which he and Houseman started after leaving the WPA) and to the rest of the nation from radio--as the voice of the Shadow, or from the Mischief Night frenzy his The War of the Worlds broadcast stoked...
...work. People knew him only as the fat man, a butt of lame jokes. Unable to finance his dream projects (including a film about the making of The Cradle Will Rock), Welles earned eating money as a narrator and pitchman. He ended as he began. The Voice. The Shadow...