Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President Al Gore took refuge in his work last week, avoiding reporters and talking about trade, global warming and America's great rivers--anything but campaign-finance reform. Nearly everyone else was talking about it, though. Republicans uncovered new evidence that Gore might have known that some of the "soft" money he solicited in 46 telephone calls to donors in 1995 and 1996 wound up in the wrong bank accounts at the Democratic National Committee--raising questions about the legality of the calls themselves...
...fight. William Weld got a severe case of inner-Beltway butterflies, causing him to throw in the towel against Jesse Helms. The President himself got an attack of parental nerves as Chelsea left for Stanford; so distraught was her dad that he had to lean on something extremely soft ? like the tobacco settlement...
...speech praising and defending her work, one saw signs of an almost delusional inner drama. If power corrupts the self, then absolute fame must surely distort it. Her enthusiasms were crankish, hypochondriac, self-obsessive: aromatherapy, colonic irrigation, the fool's gold of astrology. Diana, I repeat, was "soft" news. She caused sensations by wearing a party dress or by gaining a kilo of weight. She made headlines with every wave of her hand, every twitch of her eyebrow. This is why her death--her metamorphosis into hard news--feels so savage. Death has enshrined her and frozen her in time...
...renowned character actor Kevin Spacey. But finding out who the real Spacey is can also be a daunting task, especially when you're sitting next to him on a Beverly Hills hotel patio on a blistering summer afternoon. Spacey doesn't look like a movie star; with his soft, nondescript features, scruffy beard stubble and receding hairline, he could pass for the vacationing salesman at the next table. He doesn't talk like a star either--declining to gossip about the movie business and refusing to share the personal secrets that it has become so fashionable for celebrities to reveal...
...plan to the Communist Party Congress, former premier Zhao Ziyang is causing more headaches for hard-liners by calling for a reassessment of the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square. The appeal is part of a bid for political rehabilitation by Zhao, who was purged following the massacre for his soft stance toward the protesters, and always maintained that Tiananmen Square was a mistake...