Word: soft
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night the Quad lights up, and from my window I see the soft burning of a hundred different lights, people playing pool in our JCR and friends lying on their backs in the cool grass to look up at the stars...
...Senate, the campaign and the party. They know the failures are costing the G.O.P. dearly. One official says top party fund raisers who produced $50,000 in the 1992 election cycle are currently ponying up as little as $5,000. Moneymen who once could produce $2 million in soft money now say they are too busy with other things. "That's troublesome," said a top party official. "That has people very scared...
...selling of soft drugs is inseparable from the selling of hard drugs. Likewise, selling to college students is inseparably linked with selling to children. Don't fool yourself; somewhere up the line, Blankenship and David were allegedly profiting someone who does these things. Somewhere along the line, they were allegedly putting guns in the hands of America's future gang members. Unfortunately, these two should be counting their blessings. If they were anything but Harvard students, they wouldn't be getting any sympathy...
...Taking advantage of line-drawing," Kaufman says that, except for "soft drugs like alcohol and marijuana,...drug use is physically and mentally harmful." While I applaud Kaufman for realizing that on the spectrum of safe to dangerous drugs, no line can be drawn that puts marijuana on the more dangerous side than alcohol, his taxonomy between hard and soft drugs is too coarse. Although there is substantial evidence that chronic cocaine and crack use cause mental damage (but Blankenship and David were not in possession of these drugs), no reputable studies have ever shown marijuana, mushrooms and LSD to have...
...scenario has its soft spots, but it does allow Stone to adopt a white-trash Southern cadence and wear a persuasive dust-bowl scowl. In stir she sits and stares, her old sexual insolence tamped into sadness and contempt. She looks haggard, wiry, prickly--fabulous. By the end she is practically Garbo in Camille, the doomed woman comforting the gentle, lesser man who loves her. Stone does a fine job without surrendering her star quality. She just can't save this schematic story...