Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soft, what light through mogul's closed mind breaks? It is the glimmer of belief that there might be an audience for movies based on the plays of William Shakespeare. Since 1993, when Kenneth Branagh's rompish Much Ado About Nothing earned $23 million at the domestic box office on an $8 million budget, studios have begun to belly up to the Bard. "Much Ado showed Hollywood how successful and enjoyable a Shakespeare movie could be," says Lindsay Law, president of Fox Searchlight Pictures...
Danes and DiCaprio speak most eloquently with their faces (hers strong, his soft) and with the hurt and ardor that make this a Rebel Without a Cause for the '90s--1590s or 1990s. Sometimes it takes a radical like Luhrmann to get to the root of a natural-born screenwriter like Shakespeare...
After 22 years in the House, Hyde has earned an enviable reputation for his oratory, party loyalty and honesty. He made his name in Congress with legislation to stop federal funding of abortion. But, often to the dismay of his fellow Republicans, his soft spot for kids makes him a supporter of such "liberal" causes as the Family Medical Leave Act, a waiting period for the purchase of handguns, and against denying children of illegal aliens an education...
Despite three decades in the House, the race gets harder for this soft-spoken moderate. Hamilton's opponent, Jean Leising, is the same Republican who almost beat him in 1994. But he has held off the conservative surge by supporting a flat or consumption tax, balanced trade, less government regulation and campaign-finance reform...
Coble thinks cushy perks, cost-of-living allowances and soft pensions for government officials are a slap in the face to struggling families--and puts his money where his mouth is by not participating in the House pension plan. With 30,000 of his constituents holding down factory jobs, Coble's populism doesn't hurt: he has won handily in three elections, carrying at least 62% of the vote in each...