Word: slim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There was no mood change in the country, only one in the narrow political calculations of its major political players: a Republican Congress with a slim majority desperate to play to the activists who will turn out in the fall, a White House too distracted and declawed by scandal to fight and an electorate too content to complain much...
...line-item veto, in terms of the money it saved, was always more show than substance," says TIME White House correspondent Karen Tumulty. "But it's much too popular to let go." Despite the slim likelihood of 34 states' ratifying an amendment that aims to cut out state-bound pork, the veto concept is highly marketable. "It'll be a show campaign issue again -- just like it was for the Republicans in 1994," says Tumulty. "It's right up there with term limits." And it conveniently reappears just in time for the election season...
...range of the twenties to early thirties. The interviews occur in Jersey City and Buffalo, cities chosen because of the de-industrialization that has displaced large segments of the working class since the 1970s. For these Gen Xers, the problems of the inner city go far deeper than a slim section of jobs in the want ads. Interviewees consistently say that the sense of community, the thread that once held urban cities together, has frayed and, in some cases, split altogether. They talk about neighborhoods polarized by racism, gang violence, drug proliferation, loss of cultural identity and domestic violence...
Start with two fellows from Omaha, Neb., born 25 years apart. One was frail, comical-looking, yet he epitomized elegance in an era when glamour was the ability to steer a slim lady around a dance floor. The other man was bulky, brooding, with the artistic mission to break things: codes of behavior, the very notion of "good acting." In their distinct ways--grace vs. power, gentility vs. menace, tux vs. torn T shirt--Fred Astaire and Marlon Brando represented the poles of 20th century popular culture. Astaire gave it class; Brando gave...
...wins over traditional ECAC powers Providence and Cornell. And after advancing to the Beanpot Championship with a sound defeat of Boston College, Harvard took second-ranked Northeastern to the brink, erasing a three-goal deficit in the third period before finally losing the `Pot to the Huskies by a slim 5-4 margin...